This coming weekend presents me with a total of 4 days off from work. This of course, is all thanks to our OH so great and influential 39 founding fathers over 230 years ago for claiming their independence from a higher power. While I do feel a small but considerate sense of pride and pleasure in being American, the existentialist in me will always focus more on the intra-personal side of me in order to improve my interpersonal.
In order to achieve this, I've been continuing my efforts with Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and exploring more about it. While I'm well aware that I'm, "arrogant," or a "conceited asshole" as some of my friends kindly put it, that doesn't mean there isn't any room for improvement. I genuinely feel that I can continue to be the self-conscious, highly self-esteemed guy that I've evolved into, while still attempting to convey myself in a humble or modest manner. However, conveying and delivering (or the lack thereof) will be one of my main focuses this coming weekend.
For example, I've decided that although I'll have plenty of time for leisure, I will only drink one night out of the four. In addition, after having done some research on the interpersonal, particularly focusing on others and treating others as people of resourceful wisdom and knowledge, I've come up with the following:
1. Aim to 'step into the other person's shoes.' Take a real interest in what makes each person tick/rejoice. In what they like and do not like. In what they fear, enjoy, believe, value, et cetera.
2. Spend the next few weeks asking a lot more questions and making a lot less statements. Turn the Transmit button off – and turn the Receive button on.
3. Use Open rather than Closed questions as they elicit a lot more information.
4. Listen to the answers I get. And utilize the information from these answer in the conversation.
As you can see, my focus will be to build on my newfound connections with people and the interaction as a whole. I'm actually really excited about this as it should be relatively challenging, but only good will come from it.
Friday night I will be attending an exclusive, perhaps pretentious party in Nürnberg to which I was invited through a friend. I haven't decided if this will be the night I 'party.' Also, I'm trying to explore the possibility of CouchSurfing, either there or maybe head to Munich. In any case, I'm forcing myself to be meager in order to save some cash for my trip to Greece on the 17th. On another note, please wish me luck as I will be studying all weekend (while traveling and lounging out in any aesthetic yet peaceful grass covered surface) for my board which is coming up on Wednesday the 6th. I'll update you all next week on my findings from this coming weekend. Thanks for reading everyone :-)
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