Many of us were taught to look people straight in the eye when communicating. (And some communication skills' trainers still roll out this old shibboleth.) However you may find it useful to begin to more actively and more enthusiastically use your eyes when thinking.

Some NLP experts consider eye movements to be aid to thinking since they stimulate different parts of the brain. And that if, for some reason – such as believing they should make 'good eye contact',  a person is unable to make the accessing movements this can interfere with and slow their normal thinking style.