Your presence is requested…
It’s a pretty simple invitation, yet so hard to accept. In our multitasking world we are often communicating with more than one person at a time via text, phone, and email. Unfortunately, while this might seem efficient, the message multitasking can communicate to the person in front of us is that they are of lessor importance. Not a message most of us want to send! Yet, we do this all the time – at work, with our friends, to our children.
Research continually shows us, as does our own experience, that being fully present with another is the greatest way to communicate respect, love, and care. All feelings that we need. So let’s see if we can make our world a little less hectic and a bit more respectful this week. Put down the cell phone when you are conversing in person and give the gift of your presence.