Robert McAthur: Effictiveness Through Passion Driven Goals and Empathic Listening

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Join me and Robert McArthur as we discuss passion-driven goals and empathic listening from an architectural standpoint. Robert resides in Bountiful, Utah, USA. He has been practicing architecture since he was 15. His passion is home architectural design. Robert has a master’s degree in architecture and a degree in interior design and housing. He has done continued education in Japan, Switzerland, and the University of Harvard.

• “If you will advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to live the life that you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours,”
• PASSION: sometimes we may be drawn to something, and to me, it is about evaluating those feelings and seeing how they relate to the consistency of how often they occur to you. So, if it’s something that occurs often, it is most likely something that could be developed into a passion. So it is those things that you are constantly drawn to on a constant basis.
• Maintain your passion, evaluate it, develop it, nurture it, and stick to it. If that nurturing causes it to grow and increase and you improve – it becomes better and better, that is my definition of passion.
• If you don’t have the language to describe your passion, you will, in due course, find language to describe/define it.
• EMPATHIC LISTENING: listening is an important part of anyone’s profession. In every profession, even if your client or customer doesn’t have the proper language to articulate what they want you to do for them, truly listening can help us understand and know what they want. This will happen when we listen with the heart. In this process, you keep an open mind.
• The projects I’m working on are diverse as my clients are diverse. Use your knowledge to help them exemplify what they stylistically need or want. You allow the client to lead you by the hand to the production of what they want, or what they have pictured in their minds. This empowers them to feel like they were part of the solution, and they were listened to. The great opportunity to gain the confidence that they are getting what they want is achieved.
• Robert learned the value of empathic listening from his client Stephen R. Covey, writer of the bestseller, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

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