People don't make requests, they tend to make demands. If you have a roommate who keeps leaving their shoes in the doorway or the equivalent times 10, after a while, you're going to either get, you know, kick them out of the apartment that you have the lease on and find somewhere else to live. There could be consequences that people don't meet your request. So from now on, I request that you let me finish my sentences before you interrupt me. That's a very powerful framework with a lot of dignity and gravity and self-respect. And it's very effective. Buying a home, Rocket Mortgage will cover 1% of your rate for the first year at no
In this Episode, You Will Learn...
- The fundamental quality of recognizing the good in and having compassion for ourselves and how it's foundational in how we show up in relationships
- Recognizing tension in relationships and developing practices to help you determine what to do or say and when
- Asking yourself to choose harmony or truth in conflicts and how if you routinely choose one, you can end up with neither.
- Why it's important to admit fault and how it's a strength, not a weakness
- Using wise speech is about how we say something and it can have more impact than what we say
- The useful strategy of making small agreements that can improve larger issues in a relationship
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