Category: Your Better Self

Marriage and Relationships Your Better Self

What Do You Want From Your Relationship?

Post author By Marko
Post date July 9, 2018
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How to Create Your Relationship's North Star

Imagine the navigation system you have in your car or on your phone. If you put in an exact address, the device will lead you exactly where you want to go.

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If you get lost or get off track, the system will recalculate and prepare a new route for you. So, while the goal or the target remains the same, because the conditions have changed, the plan has changed as well.

Let’s now imagine, while still using the same navigation device, you do not know where you want to go. Well, as we all know, even the best navigation device will not be able to help you.

My question is, “What did you put in your relationship’s navigation device? Do you even HAVE a desired destination?”

Tags Journaling, Journalling, Life Plan, Life Skills, Pillar, Treat Yourself Like You Matter, Vision, What do You Want

Marriage and Relationships Your Better Self

How to Create Your Personal Life Plan

Post author By Marko
Post date July 6, 2018
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Most people have never been asked to contemplate the question “What do you hope to achieve in your life, and what kind of person do you want to be?”

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We are used to thinking hard and planning our education, career, and perhaps buying our first home. Heck, we are able to spend countless hours on planning our next summer vacation! But I have met very few people in my life who have a plan for their life.

Tags change, Change your spouse, Happy marriage, Journaling, Journalling, Life Plan, Life Skills, perfect, Pillar, Treat Yourself Like You Matter, Vision, Vision of Your relationship, What do You Want

Marriage and Relationships Your Better Self

How to Upgrade Your Life With Journaling

Post author By Marko
Post date July 6, 2018
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So, my wife recently told me I am husband version 4.0 her. She feels like she has a new husband. Wow!

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I asked her who were the other three? This is what she said.

Tags Conflict resolution, feel good, Journaling, Journalling, Life Plan, Life Skills, No-Big-Deal Conflict, Pillar, Treat Yourself Like You Matter, Vision, What do You Want

Your Better Self

How to Treat Yourself Like You Matter

Post author By Marko
Post date July 6, 2018
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One of the main reasons that people don’t get what they want is because they don’t actually figure out what it is.

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This sounds obvious, and it is. Still, not many people do it, including myself until a couple of years ago.

Tags change, Change your spouse, Journaling, Journalling, Life Plan, Life Skills, Pillar, Treat Yourself Like You Matter, What do You Want

Your Better Self

The Journaling Template that Changed my Life

Post author By Marko
Post date July 5, 2018
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I started journaling five years ago. It became almost a ritual in its own right, because it changed my life in so many positive ways.

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In my previous article I outlined numerous benefits of keeping a journal. This post is about a specific process and writing prompts that I use to lead my thoughts and keep things tidy and structured.

Tags Evernote, Journaling, Journalling, Life Plan, My Story, Pillar, Treat Yourself Like You Matter

Marriage and Relationships Your Better Self

Watch Your Spouse Carefully

Post author By Marko
Post date July 4, 2018
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Here’s the key to a good relationship. Well, not the only one, but one of the keys. Kind of a low hanging fruit, if you want.

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Watch your loved one carefully. Really carefully. What do I mean?

Tags Conflict resolution, contempt, Criticism, Journaling, Journalling, kiss of death, Men are Stupid, No-Big-Deal Conflict, Sarcasm, silent killer of relationships, silent treatments, toxic behaviors

Marriage and Relationships Your Better Self

Is Your Love Account Full Enough?

Post author By Marko
Post date July 3, 2018
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How to Make Sure the Good Outweighs the Bad?

If you are bickering with your spouse a lot, odds are that you get on edge fairly frequently.

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Traffic is horrible, and you’re yelling in your car at the jerk who pulled right in front of you. You hate your f#$&%@$ job, and your boss is such a jerk. Then you get home, hoping to find some peace and rest. Not today. Here we go again and the fight starts, usually for some utterly unimportant reason.

Then your son comes with a request.

But the poor kid isn’t aware what’s going on. So he feels your wrath too as you snap at him.

So what do you do?

Tags 5 little love rituals, Focus on the good stuff, Little Things, Love Account, TTM

Marriage and Relationships Your Better Self

What Does Doing a Good Job and Giving Your Best Really Mean?

Post author By Marko
Post date July 3, 2018
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Most people think that if you do a poor job, you get poor results. You do a good job, you get good results. If you do an excellent job, well, then you get excellent results.

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To me, this is plain wrong. This is not how the world spins, though I wish it did.

Tags Life Plan, Life Skills, TTM

Marriage and Relationships Your Better Self

The Trust Formula Revealed

Post author By Marko
Post date June 29, 2018
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Trust Formula Revealed Feel Good Rituals

Trust is like love. Both parties have to feel it before it really exists. While trusting and being trustworthy are related, they are not the same thing.

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In this post you’re going to discover the Trust Formula and the most important elements of trustworthiness. It will show you which areas you should focus on in order to fix shaken trust or to avoid breaking it in the first place.

Tags apologize, Communication in Marriage, Conflict resolution, Criticism, Life Skills, Listening skills, Little Things, No-Big-Deal Conflict, Pillar, Sarcasm, Spending time together, toxic behaviors, Trust

Marriage and Relationships Your Better Self

The Best Way to Get What You Want in Your Marriage and Beyond

Post author By Marko
Post date May 11, 2017
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Have you ever been on a diet? Has it ever happened that while you were going toward the fridge, you were telling yourself, “I shouldn’t eat that cake, I really shouldn’t.”

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Then your hand somehow got into the fridge. You actually saw it going in there! You grabbed the plate with the cake, took it out, and ate it. What happened?

Tags Change your spouse, Communication in Marriage, Conflict resolution, Criticism, Focus on the good stuff, Happy marriage, No-Big-Deal Conflict