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10/11/2018
I've turned The Relationship Minute into a weekly podcast! We will be delivering new podcasts every couple of days.
The first podcast is called "Impact trumps Intention" and is available on Apple iTunes and in Google Music Play. Subscribe using your favourite podcasting app. The podcast is also available on Spotify and will be on iHeart Radio the first week of November. If a Alexa is your listening choice, just call up The Relationship Minute on your Echo.
Transcripts of the podcast are available on my website, www.relationshipexcellence.com under the RESOURCES tab. I am testing the transcript feature for the next five months. Your feedback is always welcome right on the website. If there's enough interest, I'll make transcripts a permanent feature.
I invite you to subscribe to the podcast. If you like what you hear, please spread the word. It's later than you think.
Taking Your Relationship From Friction to Connection We start by focusing on the individuals in relationship. That growth and self-discovery forms the foundation in building a strong, connected couple.
Accountability; It's an inside job.
I hear a lot these days about the need to hold people; politicians or children or people in power, accountable for their actions. Regrettably we cannot hold another person accountable. We can challenge them about their commitment to whatever it is they have declared that they would do. We cannot hold them accountable.
Accountability IS an inside job. We hold ourselves accountable. It’s like we have an internal account wherein we make deposits through our actions. Those actions become part of the fabric of whom we become and we accept responsibility for keeping our word about something, to ourselves. We build up credibility internally. We do this because it matters to us. While we all know we cannot make another person do anything, we do try to brow beat them into being accountable.. For instance, we can’t make someone recycle. We will decide to do so because it speaks to and is aligned with, an inner value we have. From there, we take action with ease.
If we were to recycle from a place of ‘should’ or to simply gain approval or to ‘look good’ in the eyes of others, we would eventually get sloppy with the activity. We would let ourselves off the hook so to speak when others weren’t looking.
“I believe half of what people say AND all of what they do” What we can do is hold people to their word. Challenge them about the impact of them not keeping their word. When we do this, we challenge the person around their sense of internal accountability. When we’re honest with others about the impact they have on us and the world around us, we hold the promise of making the world a better place instead of falling asleep at the wheel and yielding to others impact.
It is delightful to be around and in the presence of someone who does what they say they will do.
When we develop our internal accountability, if we chose too, around being our word, it translates to the outer world as people around us learn that we can be counted upon to do what we say we will do. Now that will make the world a better place, one person at a time.
As the new year approaches I am inviting you to test out an experiment. For a month, give up hitting the 'Like' button on peoples posts. Instead, ask yourself what it is you truly 'Like' about the post? Then instead of hitting the 'Like' button write out a comment on the post, or not. It doesn't take much to hit the 'Like' button and it takes a lot to stop, slow down and think through a comment worthy of your time and the time of others to read it.
You will discover something really valuable. I'd love to hear what it is at the end of January 2017.
11/10/2016
last chance to attend The Power of knowing when NOT to compromise.
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10/19/2016
http://www.relationshipexcellence.com/shaken-not-stirred/
Shaken NOT Stirred - Relationship Excellence An event for men who want to live a more deliberate, conscious life. “What we don’t make conscious comes to us as fate” Carl Jung. Life shakes up from time to time, it’s inevitable. How we handle these events is as important as the events themselves. We are shaped by life events. They either aid...…
02/13/2016
http://www.relationshipexcellence.com/valentines-series-reflections-on-what-love-means/
Valentine’s Series: Reflections on What Love Means - Relationship Excellence Love is All You Need If that was true there wouldn’t be as much heartache in the world as there is today. Unfortunately it takes a lot more than love to make a relationship work. What is love anyway? Far be it for me to attempt to answer that question for you. I will do... Continue reading →
02/02/2016
Couples resist getting help because they’re afraid it’s over.
They’re afraid it’s the end. Who do you know that is struggling in their relationship? Please share with them the recent interview with I did with Kim Brodey.
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Taking Your Relationship From Friction to Connection We start by focusing on the individuals in relationship. That growth and self-discovery forms the foundation in building a strong, connected couple.
http://www.relationshipexcellence.com/whats-your-daily-practice/
What’s Your Daily Practice? - Relationship Excellence What’s Your Daily Practice? November 18, 2015 0 Comment read Goal Achievement, Stress TranscriptWhat’s your daily practice? For many people it’s hitting the snooze button over and over again, getting up, rushing out the door, maybe checking their page, more than likely seeing how many likes…
"How about we treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman we wants to get an abortion - mandatory 48-hr waiting period, parental permission, a note from his doctor proving he understands what he is about to do, a video he has to watch about the effects of gun violence, an ultrasound wand up the ass (just because). Let's close down all but one gun shop in every state and make him travel hundreds of miles, take time off work, and stay overnight in a strange town to get a gun. Make him walk through a gauntlet of people holding photos of loved ones who were shot to death, people who call him a murderer and beg him not to buy a gun.
It makes more sense to do this with young men and guns than with women and health care, right? I mean, no woman getting an abortion has killed a room full of people in seconds, right?"
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http://www.relationshipexcellence.com/when-anxiety-gets-the-better-of-you/
When Anxiety Gets the Better of You - Relationship Excellence I have a lot of people come to me with anxiety. Now we all get anxious from time to time. That’s normal. But when anxiety starts robbing you of the pleasures of life, of the freedom to go places, to do things, that’s a problem. So what is anxiety? Well, for some people anxiety is... Continue reading…
09/04/2014
New Programs for the Relationship You Long For
I'm developing some new and powerful programs for those longing for a better relationship. This video will give you a sense of what to expect. I welcome your feedback.
Love Yourself First Written and narrated by Owen Williams ( relationshipexcellence.com ). Animation by Brian Bray Media.
07/07/2014
Bloor Cinema - 112 Weddings Filmmaker Doug Block (51 Birch Street) has been working on the side as a wedding videographer for nearly 20 years. In that time, he has accumulated hundreds of hours of personal memories, ones that belong to people he only knew for a short time, when their love was new and energetic. Now, on the eve…
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