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Starting today or tomorrow, or a day very soon, begin your 12-day journey to put the empathic communication skills we’ve covered in this book into practice in your life right away.

The Goal is to steadily improve your Empathic Awareness, Listening, Speaking and Dialogue Skills to become a more effective communicator in building strong relationships with the important people in your life.

Now, to be clear, you won’t magically become perfect in using these skills in 12 days. Behavior modification doesn’t occur that quickly. Building new habits takes deliberate, consistent practice. But you can make meaningful strides as you consciously put these skills into practice, in the moment, one day at a time. As James Clear writes in his article How Long Does It Actually Take to Form a New Habit? (Backed by Science) : “At the end of the day, how long it takes to form a particular habit doesn’t really matter that much. Whether it takes 50 days or 500 days, you have to put in the work either way… The only way to get to Day 500 is to start with Day 1. So, forget about the number and focus on doing the work.”