A Newsletter Valuing Change

July-August 2000
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Tips for Change

Keeping Love Alive

• Respect one another.
• Communicate honestly and completely.
• Be best friends.
• Compromise.
• Clean up upsets.
• Don't take one another for granted.
• Support each other.
• Spend time together.
• Be 100 % responsible.
• Admire your differences.
• Focus on the positive.
• Share common values.
• Keep the romance alive.

Being Happy

Choose to be happy rather than right!

Positive Feelings

If you continually maintain positive feelings for the people in your life your relationships will improve. The people in your life will feel secure in your belief in them and their behavior will improve. This will result in it being even easier to maintain your positive feelings.

Visualize Connection

Books Supporting Change

Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson by Mitch Albom is a wonderful, touching, sad, thought provoking story of Morrie's last days. Morrie through example of his own life shows how to live life to the fullest even while dying.
Morrie shares the experience of his full, rich life that is based on connection with family and friends. He shares his insight about such topics as emotion, marriage, family, love, forgiveness and death. Read this book aloud with a loved one.

Buy this book

W. H. Auden: "We must love one another or die."

Personal Notes As the writer and editor I would like to share a personal story with my readers. I'm getting married in August! And what is significant is a lot of credit goes to my experience of working with my coach. My desire to find someone with whom to share my life became a subject between my coach and I. I examined what wasn't working and I realized that I needed to, and was willing, to take more risks in getting what I wanted in my life. So I joined a .com matchmaking service. Something I had no inclination or desire to do - a big risk for me. With the encouragement of my coach I decided to get out of my comfort zone and go for it. I did and the result is my engagement to the most wonderful, caring, sensitive man that shares my important values. Did I ever gain!