Emotional Intelligence for Critical Thinkers
There is a way to deal with mean family members. It may involve treating them like other people instead of family, which can help you disconnect from wanting to impress them or be loved by them.
This episode helps to prepare you to deal with the not-so-friendly relatives you may have no choice but do deal with.
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What are the steps you need to take to figure out the challenges that come into your life? Is there a process?
Would you know what questions to ask if someone you know shared that they were going through some challenges?
Join Matthew Bivens and I as we talk about our process of discovering issues and how to dig down through the layers.
Stonewalling is damaging to a relationship and can make it fail if whatever is shut down is never brought up to be resolved. If you give your partner the silent treatment, you need to hear this segment. In segment two, I talk about expectations in friendships. Should friendships be an equal, two-way street or can there be imbalance where one person does all the work and the other just lets them do it?
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What kind of response do you get when you need to honor yourself with someone by saying “no” to them? I had to do this very thing a little while back.
It wasn’t just a “No, I can’t help you”, it was a, “Hey, we’ve been planning a project together for over a month and a half now, and I know we’re going to have a conference call about it on Sunday, but I need to bow out. I realize I’m fifty percent of the project, and that without me, you really won’t be able to finish it, at least in a short amount of time, but I gotta back out now.”
I’ll tell you, it was hard to click Send on that email. It was an email instead of a phone call because I really wanted to word my message so it conveyed all my thoughts without interruption.
In a live call or conversation, you could say one word and the entire conversation could go into an emotional spiral. Tempers can flair, and your message is never heard. The only thing that’s heard is that you are abandoning the other person, and it sounds like you don’t care about them. [Read more…]