Let's get real for minute and be honest, in answering this question:
How much of life is filled with conflict with other people?
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It's a lot, isn't it?
Family members, children, work colleagues, those other people, that idiot on social media… disagreement is everywhere!
It's why communication and understanding are so high up on the List of Very Important Things™ when it comes to relationships, of any flavour really.
Once, when I was prepping for an event I ran, on the topic of Difficult People, I stumbled across a piece of writing that changed my view on conflict and disagreement entirely.
(It dropped such a clanging insight in my head as I was reading it, that I can still recall the feeling! I remember thinking, “Now why hadn't I seen this before?!” and then just sitting quietly for a bit, to let the insight percolate.)
It's from Richard Carlson's book, What About the Big Stuff? and it's so powerful and so on the money that I want to share it with you.
I've left this until a Sunday, because it goes deeper than you'd imagine and I want you to really take the time to slow down and listen properly to it, with an open heart and an open mind.
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I can pretty much guarantee it will catch you off guard and present a totally different perspective on conflict.
One that gives you a clear path to ending it, whatever the relationship.
Wouldn't that be nice?
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Giles
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