How "The Listen Up Project" got started

I have a problem. I'm deaf. My problem lies not in my ears, because my ears work perfectly well. I'm deaf because I'm a poor listener. In March 2011, my wife told me for the umpteenth time that I don't listen. For some unknown reason, I accepted what she said that time and decided that she was right. I don't listen. So, I embarked on what I now affectionately call "The Listen Up Project."

"The Listen Up Project" began with a two step arrangement: (1) shut your mouth, and (2) actually listen to what people say. Simple? I found myself incapable of following these two steps for the first month. But, despite the initial failure, I kept at it. Eventually, I began to make it all the way through each of those cumbersome two steps. Wow, did I begin to hear things I had never heard before. Since then, I've never looked back and I've concluded that I want to become a superior listener. Not a good one, but a superior one.

The lessons learned in a few short months are so valuable that I'd give up my right arm in exchange for them (but not my right ear). This has been so life changing, that I decided to start blogging so that others might become superior listeners as well. My assumption is you may have the very same hearing problem that I have. So...

Consider joining me on "The Listen Up Project." It starts with a two step: (1) shut your mouth, and (2) actually listen to what people say. Brace yourself. You will never hear the same.