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Life Mastery: Communication & Relationships

If Life Had an Instruction Book, This Would be It

Enroll in Life Mastery: Communication & Relationships to unlock the secrets of compelling communication and meaningful relationships, empowering you to leave a lasting impression and navigate any situation with confidence and charm.

50 lessons 4.3 hours 4 preview lessons
About this course

The Life Mastery course series covers hundreds of life-enhancing topics that they don't teach in high-school or most colleges, but should. This is more than a course on self-improvement; it is a course on mastering life.


If life had an instruction book... this would be it.


In this course on communication and relationships,



  • Learn How to Make a Strong and Lasting Impression

  • Learn Valuable Conversation Skills

  • Learn the Secrets to Being Likable

  • Learn to Avoid the Most Common Grammar Mistakes

  • Learn Very Useful Persuasion Skills

  • Learn How To Be Diplomatic

  • Learn How To Be Assertive (while still being likeable!)

  • Learn Important Vocabulary

  • Learn How To Learn from Others

  • Become Really Good at Argumentation

  • Learn the Foundations of Public Speaking


Learn About Mastering Life


This course is a result of the continued research that suggest adults in the United States today are woefully unprepared for today's social and professional environment. People struggle with effective communication, relationships, weight and health issues, depression, life purpose, achievement, discerning fact from fiction, selling ideas to others, earning enough to live comfortably, finding jobs, and overall peace of mind. These are problems that get in the way of living a happy and fulfilling life when one's energy is spent on just trying to get by. This course addresses each of those problems, and many more, with the goal of helping you avoid those problems while focusing on what energizes you most.


By the end of this course, you will be on the right track to designing the life you want to live, and living it well!

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Course Introduction

1 lesson

1. Welcome!
1 min Preview
Welcome to my Life Mastery course! This course has been several years in the making and I am continuing work on it with the anticipated completion by Fall of 2020. Since …

Making a Strong and Lasting Impression

8 lessons

2. The First Impression
8 min Preview
Research continues to show that making a good first impression is important because a bad first impression can be extremely difficult to correct. There are many ways to m…
3. Bo's Thoughts on First Impressions
3 min
4. Articulation
5 min
Imagine being the human resources director for a large firm. You are reviewing applications and seeking candidates to fill a top-level position. After searching through h…
5. Bo's Thoughts on Articulation
5 min
6. Little Courtesies
5 min
Courtesies are polite behaviors, gestures, or remarks. While entire books have been written on manners, this lesson focuses on a few select behaviors that apply to both p…
7. Bo's Thoughts on Little Courtesies
2 min
8. Making a Lasting Impression
5 min
An impression is an effect, feeling, or image retained as a consequence of experience. However, like a footprint in the sand at a beach, impressions eventually fade away;…
9. Bo's Thoughts on Making a Lasting Impression
4 min

Conversation Skills

8 lessons

10. Small Talk
5 min Preview
Small talk is polite conversation about unimportant or uncontroversial matters, especially as engaged in on social occasions. As much as people despise small talk, it is …
11. Bo's Thoughts on Small Talk
3 min
12. Reading Body Language
5 min
It is said that over 90% of communication is more than just the words we use, and 60% of our communication is nonverbal, or body language. It is also believed that nonver…
13. Bo's Thoughts on Reading Body Language
3 min
14. Meeting People
7 min
Imagine that you work for XYZ Corporation, a large company that manufactures widgets. The company sends you and a few of your coworkers to an international widget convent…
15. Bo's Thoughts on Meeting People
3 min
16. Active Listening
8 min
Sigmund Freud, the Austrian founder of psychoanalysis, was known as one of the greatest active listeners of all time. One of his greatest contributions to the field of me…
17. Bo's Thoughts on Active Listening
2 min

Being Likable

9 lessons

18. Express Sincere Interest in Others
4 min Preview
19. Avoiding Criticizing and Complaining
6 min
20. Empathy
6 min
21. Remembering and Using People’s Names
7 min
It has been said that a person’s name is the most important word in the world to that person. Using a person’s name in conversation is one of the best ways to build rappo…
22. Being Flexible
5 min
23. Building Rapport
6 min
24. Smiling
4 min
25. The Art of Praise and Compliment
4 min
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Grammar

2 lessons

27. The Importance of a Good Grammar
3 min
28. 50 Common Grammar Mistakes and How To Avoid Them Persuasion Skills
23 min

Persuasion Skills

4 lessons

29. Winning Others To Your Way of Thinking
5 min
30. Six Words To Successful Communication
4 min
31. Analogies, Similes, and Anecdotes
4 min
32. Using Questions Effectively
5 min

Being Diplomatic

3 lessons

33. Three Questions to Diplomacy
3 min
34. The Word “But”
4 min
35. Never Be Wrong Again
5 min

Assertiveness

3 lessons

36. Control the Conversational Climate
3 min
37. Three Rejections = Success
4 min
38. Learning How to Say NO
4 min

Vocabulary

2 lessons

39. The Importance of a Good Vocabulary
5 min
40. A Brief List of Vocabulary Words Every Adult Should Know
12 min

Learning from Others

2 lessons

41. Accepting Criticism
6 min
42. Apologizing
6 min

Argumentation

5 lessons

43. Avoiding Arguments
5 min
44. Bo's Thoughts on Avoiding Arguments
2 min
45. The Socratic Method
6 min
Content Warning: The start of this lesson contains some adult material.
46. Dealing with Difficult People
7 min
47. Hostile E-mails
8 min

Public Speaking

2 lessons

48. Public Speaking Primer
8 min
49. Bad Public Speaking: A Demonstration
3 min
No, I am not a professional actor, but thanks for thinking I am.

Public Speaking ~

1 lesson

50. Lesson 50
2 min
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