Leadership is more about clarity than it is about control.
Happy couples resist the temptation to go to bed at different times. They go to bed at the same time, even if one partner wakes up later to do things while their partner sleeps.
Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair.
PTSD occurs following a trauma that was so awful that in retrospect you don’t understand how you survived. What that causes is an extreme feeling of vulnerability that you get past but that doesn’t go away.
Is it possible that the collective global psyche of the world is like an overloaded modem and can no longer meaningfully communicate, comprehend, or listen to anything or anyone else?
One reason some people are long-winded is because they’re trying to impress their conversational counterpart with how smart they are, often because they don’t actually feel that way underneath. If this is the case for you, realize that continuing to talk will only cause the other person to be less impressed.
Women have always run the world; maybe it’s time to give them a chance at ruling it.
If and when they have a disagreement or argument, and if they can’t resolve it, happy couples default to trusting and forgiving rather than distrusting and begrudging.
It’s no fun being a salesperson when it feels like you’re talking to a wall. That’s what it feels like when you haven’t learned your customer’s points of interest.
Connecting is always better than disconnecting.
When someone is complimenting you, they are sharing how your actions or behaviors impacted them. They are not asking if you agree.
I know CEOs, and they get sick when they have to lay people off, especially around Christmas.
Very often, when you get into a conversation that’s more of a debate, you’ll pick up that the other person is venting at you. And when someone vents at you, it triggers a reaction. You get defensive and vent back.
When winning is everything and everyone does whatever they need to win and to not lose, including lying, you have a world in which ‘basic trust’ is lost.
If fun puts a smile on your face, beauty and elegance put a smile in your heart and take your breath away. It’s longer-lasting and more satisfying than fun.
Braggarts are insecure and need attention, and bragging often has the opposite effect on most people when you’re trying to gain their respect and increase your influence.
In my life, I think I have had more than two hundred significant breakthroughs that exponentially accelerated my life forward. However, each and every one of them was preceded by a breakdown that was not pretty, was often scary, and often felt like something I would not get past.
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