Communication Habits That Build Your Reputation
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What are the three rules for building a communication legacy?
If somebody came and erased my entire reputation in communication and I had to start all over from scratch, here's what I would do. On today's episode, I'm going to give you my three rules for building a communication legacy that lasts. Welcome to the Jefferson Fisher podcast, where I'm on a mission to make your next conversation the one that changes everything.
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Okay, if my life was on a big whiteboard, and somebody came with a rag and just wiped it off, and I had to start all over in building a reputation in how I'm going to communicate and make people feel, this is what I would do. Here is my blueprint if I had to start all over from scratch. You ready? Number one, I'm going to speak as if every word matters. I'm going to talk as if every word matters.
How can words have a ripple effect in communication?
Now, you might think, Jefferson, that sounds like a lot. It's not. I'm not saying you have to go, just a minute, let me think about it every single time you talk. That's not it. It is a mindset. It is a mindset that what you say today, today, affects everything about who you will be tomorrow, how you'll be talked tomorrow. In my book, The Next Conversation, one of the first things I teach in The Essentials is that your words have a ripple effect, meaning what you say today affects everything else in your life. Communication touches everything. How you talk to the person behind the counter or the waiter or waitress affects how they talk to their family when they go home, how you talk to your friends
Or people that are strangers affect what they think about you. How you talk at work affects how you move up in your job. How you talk to your kids affects how they will talk to their kids. People you will never meet are affected by your words today. And that's including words you say to yourself. I came across something on social media that really hit me hard. I wish I took a screenshot of it. But the essence was this. Every time you act... You're trying to make two people proud, or you're trying to honor two people. That's your younger self and your older self. And that was almost a mind-blowing concept to me, of when I choose to say something, I am saying it sometimes for my younger self, to stand up for myself, to make them proud of where we've come. You've made it. You're okay.
And also what I say and do for my older self, the person who's going to have to live with the consequences, the person who's going to have to pay the cost. So it was just a great way of kind of putting a... a spectrum on it, the younger self, the five-year-old, eight-year-old me, I can see it with my big bottle glasses, and my older self, who hopefully still has hair, what am I doing for that person that I could be choosing to do today? Every word matters. Your words have a ripple effect. And so you say, okay, what's the practical effect of that, Jefferson? What do you do? Here's what I would do.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are the three rules for building a communication legacy?
0:00–0:21
2
Why is it important to subscribe to the podcast?
0:21–2:11
3
How can words have a ripple effect in communication?
2:11–7:07
4
Why do every word and positive tone matter?
7:07–15:31
5
What role does consistency play in communication?
15:31–18:25