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Category Archives: Getting Along with Each Other
Just Relax
Being able to relax in difficult situations makes them much easier to handle. I started thinking about this on two separate occasions earlier in the week. The first situation took place in the shower. Whenever I take a cold shower, … Continue reading
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Tagged breathe, cold showers, Just Relax, Never Split the Difference, relaxation
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Gentle Guidance
This is a wonderful short story from How to Win Friends and Influence People. It does a great job showing how the power of gentle guidance and kindness works much better than force and brutality. I’ve been thinking of this … Continue reading
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Tagged compassion, force, Gentle Guidance, guidance, How to Win Friends and Influence People, peace, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Contrarian Game
Something I’ve found useful for avoiding the ideology trap is playing the contrarian game. This simply involves arguing against whatever opinions I come across or think about even if I happen to agree with them. Doing so forces me to … Continue reading
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Tagged contrarian, empathy, opinions, perspectives, positions, Presence, The Contrarian Game
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The Difficulty of Giving Good Advice
At this point, I’m more cautious about giving advice than I’ve ever been before. This doesn’t meant that I never give advice. I’m happy to offer advice if someone asks for it and I can be of help to them. … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, comfort, Encouragement, growth, progress, support, The Difficulty of Giving Good Advice
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Stephen Covey: A Paradigm Shift
This is a story that Stephen Covey uses in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to demonstrate the power of paradigm shifts. Notice that nothing changes in the story except Covey’s perception on the situation; that one change made … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Humanitarian Things, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Self-Improvement
Tagged kindness, pain, paradigm shift, perception, perspective, Stephen Covey, Stephen Covey: A Paradigm Shift, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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Good Communication: The Way Forward
Sometimes I feel like a broken record on this blog. There are a few subjects that I regularly write about, sometimes from different angles but often from the same angles. Communication is one of those subjects. I’m sure I’ve said … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, Daryl Davis, empathy, Good Communication: The Way Forward, habits, kindness, love, progress, rhetoric, solving problems, understanding
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Some of My Thoughts on Projection
There’s a simple exercise I’ve heard of for finding your shadow. Simply write on a piece of paper everything you dislike seeing in other people and then put your name at the top; that’s your shadow. Although I’ve done this … Continue reading
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Tagged emotions, feelings, freedom, love, peace, projection, self-awareness, shadow, Some of My Thoughts on Projection, thoughts
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Review of Letting Go
Letting Go is the best book I’ve read this year. David Hawkins brilliantly addresses how to effectively manage unwanted thoughts, feelings, and emotions so that they don’t build up within us and cause problems. I got this book right when … Continue reading
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Tagged David Hawkins, emotions, feelings, Letting Go, peace, Review of Letting Go, Surrender, thoughts
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Living with the Shadow
There is a concept in psychology called the shadow. As I understand it, the shadow consists of whatever aspects of ourselves we unconsciously repress or consciously suppress. It is anything that we keep from others or even from ourselves, and … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, Alan Watts, Carl Jung, Letting Go, Living with the Shadow, love, Mara, peace, psychology, shadow, wholeness
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Wanting to Get Away
I’ve been wanting to get away. Not by going on a trip that I think I’ll enjoy but by getting in my car and driving across the country to start a new life. My whole life has been in the … Continue reading
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Tagged changes, Getting Away, healing, mindset, past, self-improvement, Wanting to Get Away
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