Maintaining A Good Relation

Having good, supportive friendships, a strong marriage or close and loving relationships with our family members will make us much more likely to be happy. 

Action steps: Take time, today, to spend time with your loved ones, to tell them what they mean to you, to listen to the...

Good listening is active, not passive:

• Maintain eye contact.
• Do not fidget, shift your body weight often, and never look at your watch! 
• Nod your head to show agreement but do not interrupt to make your point or share your own experiences.

• We resent the person who comes in and tries to boss us around. This is because we are independent, self-sufficient people. Or at least that's what we tell ourselves.
• Yet if someone says something we disagree with, something inside us tells us we have to argue with them.
• We wo...