Getting to know others involves acknowledging their consistent patterns

We have to get to know people for who they are and get a sense of what makes them tick. So, let’s say that they tend to be blue sky (lots of throwing around ideas and chatting the ears off you but not so strong on execution) and we’re more organised and...
Picking and choosing our battles

Picking and choosing our battles

An acquaintance frequently complained about their partner and their almighty rows over everything from using the ‘good towels’, forgetting to take the bins out, whose way was the ‘right’ way to do things, to how one or the other hadn’t...

Giving To Get Along

People pleasing means that sometimes, possibly often, we confuse compromising ourselves and avoiding conflict with ‘giving’. In fact, much of what we regard as ‘keeping the peace’ equates to destroying our inner peace. Giving is the free...