Lewis Howes

and I'm tired, I'm mumbling, but we've got to be clear when we're communicating so that others can understand us and have a certain sense of respect for us.

But if you're saying sorry all the time, you know, I have some Canadian friends, sorry Canadians, but you guys say sorry all the time.

And my Canadian friends who are listening or watching, I'm sure you're chuckling right now, but you say sorry when nothing happened.

Nothing wrong happened, you're just saying sorry.

Hey, sorry, how are things going today?

Sorry, let me open the door for you.

It's like, hey, just stop saying the word sorry.

It's all good.

No one's upset at you.

And I tease a little bit, but my Canadian friends will probably laugh at this joke because they know it's kind of true.

But start to communicate differently.

And when you start to communicate differently, when you speak with certainty,

with the second strategy, you are going to start seeing incredible shifts happening in your life.

Once I started dropping the apologies and I'm sorry, and I started speaking with certainty and clarity, people stopped interrupting and you just started to see a shift in how people would connect

with me in the eyes and people would connect me.

I gave this speech recently to a multi-billion dollar company, to their leadership team, the CEO and the executives on the leadership team of a global brand.

And I was doing a workshop, a small workshop for 12 of their leadership team.

And I was in front of a little round table.

It wasn't a big audience like I'm used to.

It was a small little round table, kind of like a mastermind.