Here are 15 thoughts to contemplate in the New Year:
- People are as healthy as their biggest secret.
- If you want people to communicate openly and honestly with you, be positively predictable. If you are unpredictable or negative, they will see you as unsafe.
- Banish the words “have to” from your vocabulary. They serve little purpose and will cause you to feel like a victim.
- Change “have to” to “choose to.” Those words are empowering because if you can choose “to” you can also choose “not to.”
- Many of us walk around believing people know what we want and know how we feel. They don’t.
- Gang up on the problem not the other person.
- Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. They’re just not entitled to make their opinion your opinion.
- In the end, all life is about is the quality of our relationships. Nothing else really matters.
- Unless you have compassion and empathy for yourself, you can never truly have them for another person.
- Over time you become like the people with whom you associate.
- Confidence is a by-product of options. The more options you have, the more confident you will be.
- When you’re stuck you will either need more help, more time or more information.
- Lasting change is centered on telling the truth in a non-judgmental way.
- You don’t control all circumstances but you have total control over your responses to those circumstances.
- While every experience is not a gift, if you look with and open heart and an open mind you can find a gift in every experience.
