How to Know if a Friendship is REAL
Although you can’t choose your family, you CAN choose your friends. In many ways your friends are your CHOSEN family, so with friendships it should be about quality and not quantity. While positive quality friendships can contribute to your emotional well-being, negative, draining relationships can hurt your emotional health. Your time is precious. Share it […]
Why Are You Single?
By David Steele One of the hardest things for me to accept is that I create my own outcomes, whether I like them or not, my failures as well as my successes. As a child of divorce I swore that when I got married it would be for life, yet I’ve been married and divorced […]
What You See Depends Upon Where You’re Standing and Where You’re Looking
By David Steele We humans are social creatures. Relationships come quite naturally to us. So you would think that we would not only be able to make them work, but we would be really good at them. But it’s not so simple. There are seven billion people on this planet. Some of them are […]
What You Believe, You Can Achieve
by David Steele Our reality and results are largely determined by our beliefs and attitudes. Attitudes are internal beliefs that create your experience of yourself, others, and life; the way you see things and your internal state of “being” that are largely self-fulfilling; they WILL be true because you believe them and allow them to […]
What is a Radical Marriage?
By David Steele ad.i.cal (adjective): very different from the usual or traditional Most couples don’t want an ordinary, boring, routine relationship. They want excitement, fun, closeness, love. When we get married we make vows to be together until death do us part. That’s a long time, and sadly, half of marriages don’t or can’t […]
Wanted: The Next Evolution of Marriage
By David Steele Despite its historic and important role in our society, the institution of marriage is facing an existential crisis. As we write this, fewer people are tying the knot, the divorce rate is at an all-time high, and “til death do us part” is becoming a thing of the past. Rather than […]
The Most Important Relationship Skill
By David Steele The single most important relationship skill is not communication, it’s taking ownership. Successful relationships require taking ownership of your “experience.” WHAT IS YOUR “EXPERIENCE?” Your “experience” is what happens inside your body and your mind in response to events. It is composed of your thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations. Your experience […]
The Journey Beyond “Happily Ever After”
By David Steele What you conceive and believe, you can achieve. — Napoleon Hill (paraphrased) If Napoleon Hill is correct, this also means that what you don’t conceive or believe, you can’t achieve. As relationship coaches our clients want to live “happily ever after” and we help our clients achieve their dreams. This is cool, […]
Ten Things You Can Do Right Now to Find Your Perfect Mate
By David Steele Start by losing the losers If you want to find your soul mate you must be available and not involved with people that aren’t right for you. Staying available is hard for a lot of singles, but necessary for finding the love of your life. OK, available now? Next… are you […]