Sam Gibbs Morris Consulting

Good communication will do more for the quality (and ease) of your life than almost anything else.

How you communication IS the tuning fork of your life.

When I first stopped drinking 14 years ago, within the first year the one thing I heard most from people was that my communication was so much better.

I was speaking more clearly, annunciating my words better, and I was actually telling the truth. There were a lot of lies and very “murky” and avoidant communication in the years I spent drinking. Shocker… I know.

Throughout the last 13-14 years what I have learned and continue to see is that better a man communicates (including myself in this) the better his life gets.

What does the masculine do in relationships? His big leadership responsibilities are the structure, the culture, and the containment of time and space.

All three of those are based in honest, authentic, clear, and direct communication FROM HIS HEART.

This goes for every area of life; business, friendships, intimacy, navigating conflict, and leadership.

When your communication is clean, your life tends to be clean too.

Now for the real juice, in order to have high quality communication you must have high quality capacity, and a lot of it.

Your capacity is what will allow your communication to be clear of ego, of wounding, of controlling behavior, of avoidance, and of manipulation.

If you want to be a better communicator start by working on your capacity.

Four ways that drinking alcohol creates unhealthy distortions in your life.

Alcohol is a marketing lie designed to funnel you into a number out, more docile, version of yourself.

Stop drinking as an act of rebellion and come back to your primal masculine.

If you want the power of choice in your life back, remove the thing that is controlling your choices. In this case, drinking.

How available you are for your life on the days when you feel very unavailable is the truest measure of your actual capacity.

When you start drinking nobody tells you that it will steal your identity one sip at a time.

If you think your drinking habit is not affecting your relationship, ask your wife how she feels about it.