Building Relationships, Commitment, And Love - Continuing With R

We continue our series on how to build interpersonal relationships, whether with family, coworkers, friends, or that special someone...

Commitment and love are important to all of us; they are worth fighting for; they are worth working for. You also should know that in spite of many promises there is no secret for success, no checklist of things to do, and just as importantly no checklist of things not to do. But we do have suggestions, now continuing with the letter R. We actually have a double series of articles for the letter R. The focus here is on refined and relax.

R is for refined. The jury is out on whether refined flour or unrefined flour is better tasting and better for you. Can you guess which way I lean? While you’re at it, can you guess what happens if you lean on flour? The jury is also out on whether refined sugar or unrefined sugar is better tasting and better for you. Can you guess which way I lean? You don’t have to guess which way I lean on refined and unrefined people. That’s an understatement, nobody can force you even to read the rest of this article. Please do. People should be refined. But not excessively. Don’t spit on the floor but you don’t have to lift your pinky when you drink your tea, independent of whether and how you sweeten it. We are not cave dwellers or trolls. Show some manners, in a manner of speaking. And don’t speak with your mouth full. I am refined so I won’t say full of what. And make sure that any flour in your mouth has been cooked.

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R is for relax. Relax, Max. Try relaxing, Maxine. Everything is not a crisis. You don’t have to be lax, but you don’t have to stress out either. As that famous phrase goes, this too will pass. Stress has a constant traveling companion, more stress. Of course once in a while you must respond immediately. But when people tell you that their job consists of putting out fires they usually don’t actually put out fires. Firefighters are a different story. They obviously live stressful lives. But many of them are masters in dealing with stress. Firefighters know when there is no fire and don’t stress themselves out by acting as if there was one until it happens. Then they quit relaxing. Be like the firefighters, don’t stress yourself out on non-existent fires. That will give you more strength to deal with the inevitable fires.

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