Have you ever walked away from a conversation, meeting, or even from  watching a sporting event thinking: “That didn’t go how I thought it  would”?

As human beings, we tend to make assumptions about how things are  going to go.  For example, we may presume someone will react a certain  way to what we have to say to them.  The danger of this is, we can  actually create self-fulfilling prophecies that blind us, fueling the  “fire” and prevents us from interpreting what the other individual  actually meant. 

If you’ve ever ripped into someone only to have them come back with:  “Hang on!  That’s not what I am saying at all!” then, you know what we  mean.  When we presume we know what someone is thinking, what they are  going to say, or what they intend, we have a habit of interpreting their  reactions and what they say through our lens versus being truly open to  what they are actually conveying to us.  This leads to create  self-fulfilling prophecies.

All it takes to alleviate this is a slight shift in the way we  approach these conversations.  We can prepare for the possible outcomes  of how a conversation may go without forcing our narrative to be met by  remaining open to the possibilities; rather than, forcing our narrative  to be met through assumptions.  Join us as we dive into how to create  this subtle, yet powerful, shift.