Lessons

LESSONS WHAT LIFE TEACHES US

Here are some of the unspoken lessons our lives and intimate relationships teach us when we have the presence of mind to pay attention:

* Despite what most people may believe, men fall in love faster than women do.  Why?  Men, on the whole, fall for the visual, whereas women are more focused on the whole pictures.

* A Foreign Writer suggests that most of what you thought, you wanted at age of 20, you will achieve or acquire by 50, or you will come to the conclusion that you don’t really want it. Most of what you knew at 20, you will forget by the age 50 or you’ll relearn in entirely different ways. Most of the things you feared would happen at 20, won’t occur. The truly scary things are those you never even dreamed would happen.

* Picking a good partner to be with in a committed intimate relationship is largely a matter of luck. Once chosen, however, you can optimize your chances of having a great relationship by regularly communicating how you’re feeling and what you’re needing, having good conflict resolution, negotiating and compromising skills, fighting fairly and benevolently, being responsive, unselfish, listening extremely well and cleaning up problems and irritations in a timely, effective and positive way.

* Empathy, the ability to see and understand things from someone else’s perspective, is one of the main keys to living effectively and happily with others.

* Value the people you work with. Show appreciation and empathy for fellow employees' work situations and personal lives. Doing so not only involves you more closely in what goes on throughout the plant, but also makes you someone that others want to work with, helping your customers. Being involved in this way might require more time, but I've become a firm believer while working in a company that we should all be.

* Honesty and integrity are paramount. Prove untrustworthy once and it's tremendously hard to re-establish yourself....