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How to create a positive work environment
Conflict resolution strategies
Effective communication in the workplace
Diversifying Our Relationship Portfolio
- If we want to make a meaningful and long-lasting improvement, we have to diversify our relationship portfolio
- We don't need to be in a relationship to have relationships. We've had them the whole time.
- Expanding our intimate connections does not automatically mean we're siphoning the emotional energy out of our primary relationship.
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Take A Break
- Having a break in a friendship is sometimes the most important aspect of actually creating growth later on.
- Sometimes reconnecting can start by simply asking: "I've really missed you."
- In romantic relationships, desire needs mystery. In platonic relationships, absence makes t...
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Spending Time with Friends is a Balancing Act
People who have a specialized social network tend to feel more fulfilled in their lives than people who look to one person to do it all.
Healthy friendships are never one-sided utilitarian relationships. Ask yourself:
When you're in a romantic relationship, do you tend to only r...
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Our Expectations of Our Partners Have Never Been so High
- We still want everything the traditional family was meant to provide-security, children, property, and respectability-but now we also want our partner to love us, desire us, and be interested in us.
- Where did we get this idea that one person is supposed to provide every facet of emot...
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Social networks enhance our real lives
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Even though SocialNet failed, he got this insight from it: "We'r...
The Culture Of Individual Relationships
The culture built in an individual relationship is more open and meaningful than a group culture, because it gives the possibility for differences to exist without them getting in the way.
When we're developing individual friendships, we’re setting up tacit, but dynamic ru...
3 Decisions that shape our destiny
If we can get the right emotions, we can get ourselves to do anything.... determined enough to find the way.
- What are you going to focus on? (focus = feeling) Focus gives it meaning, & meaning brings out emotions.
- What does it mean? (Is it the end or the beginn...
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