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How to Improve Your Relationships: Big Ideas & Small Steps

How important are your relationships to you? This is a serious question—not a rhetorical one—so think about it for a minute.

How about your relationships with your spouse and kids? Your parents, siblings, and other family members? Your friends, coworkers, and all the other people you know? How important are relationships to your day-to-day happiness, success at your job, and overall quality of life?

Are those relationships important enough to you to take a few minutes to make them better? Because you can, and it can start right now.  

Improving your relationships will improve your life. You’ll be happier and more effective, and you will make a positive impact on the people around you. The good news is anyone—including you—can improve their relationships if they choose. And they can do it one step at a time.

We finished publishing this integrated series of articles on relationships, and those 6 articles are shown below. Each of them talks about a life-enhancing “Big Idea” with practical “Small Steps” we can take to make progress, and you can get started right now:

  1. Improving Your Relationships by Improving Yourself – Quick summary of 5 proven ways you can improve your relationships and your life.
  2. Letting Go of Control to Improve Your Relationships – The breakthrough in how you relate to people to make it better for them and you. 
  3. How Being Self-Aware Will Improve Your Communication – Simple but powerful tips to find and fix blind spots in your communication.  
  4. Investing in Real Conversations to Increase Connection – How to have the best conversations you have ever had for deeper relationships. 
  5. Building Good Relationship Habits One Step at a Time – Small steps you can take to have more friends and avoid being as sad and lonely.  
  6. Relationships Happen When We Focus on Others – 10 ways you can build deeper community and find meaning and purpose in your life.   

You can also watch a video of a live talk on improving your relationships by clicking the play button below or here. I hope you enjoy it …

Next Right Steps: From any of those articles or the video, what is 1 positive step you can take starting today to improve your relationships?

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