Adjusting to being a LBS....

[JRuss]

I was a poor listener, also. I found that meditation really, really helps. We don't listen because we aren't present and in the moment when someone talks to us. We are thinking about something else. Meditation rewires your brain circuitry in a good way. You might try it. It also has the benefit of simply providing a really good, healthy way to relax. This is about as stressful a thing as can happen to us, short of losing a child or spouse to death or horrible injury. I found it to be a lifesaver and am only hyperbolizing a little bit, if at all, when I say that.