When a phone rings

Perhaps it interrupts you, takes you away from what you were doing, makes you uncomfortable. And at the same time, you can't let it ring/ignore it, because on a professional level you're obliged to answer, because curiosity about what it's for gets to you...

And what is your energy while you attend to it?

Perhaps you think it's just another call, one you don't feel like dealing with (whether it's a colleague, a client, my boss, a friend, or even my partner) or it's someone you can listen to and help. How does one option or the other make me feel? It's very different, isn't it?

Often, the daily routine diverts us to the first alternative: we think it's the easiest, the quickest way to close this matter, without it giving me much, nor many complications. But at the same time, probably without many results. Just another call.

However, when your energy is focused on listening and wanting to help the other person, in wanting to understand the other person and learn from what they tell you and contribute, of course, if it's in your power how do you feel?

A connection and a richness that can be incalculable are generated. You listen to understand, while you accept them. Because you accept their vision (whether it's similar to yours or different) and what it allows you to learn. Instead of listening to respond and gracefully exit the topic without learning, without connection, without richness for both parties.

And you may wonder how to smile at yourself when the phone rings? By regaining the curiosity of children that we may have almost lost, to immerse ourselves in the labyrinth of words coming from the other person and my intention to help while also being helped.

Another way to answer the phone, right?