So, it’s the new year season. Around new years many people focus on getting their personal financial house in order, but a lot of people are also focused on improving their personal relationships. So, if your goal is to improve your personal relationships, you’ll have to take some action.
Here are four ways to do this:
1. Deciding to do it – being intentional. You need to make a conscious decision to make the relationship better.
2. Paying attention & being present. When you’re spending time with them put your phone and distractions away.
3. Appreciate the totality of who the person is. Everyone has good points, you just have to focus on them.
4. Adore and respect the person. Support their bigger dreams and life goals.
Good healthy relationships matter a lot. Per Harvard, people with strong relationships are happier, live longer and have fewer health problems (proof here). Relationships are also conduits for knowledge, as well as for capital and opportunities. So, if pays to make them a priority.
And as a bonus if your goal is to improve your personal relationships, these other articles from the Dinks might help point you in the right direction.
The Grass Is Greener Where You Water It
How To Tell Your Spouse They Don’t Make Enough Money
What Dave Ramsey’s Take On Marriage Is Missing
Yes You Can Convince Your Spouse To Invest In Stocks
James Hendrickson
James Hendrickson is an internet entrepreneur, blogging junky, hunter and personal finance geek. When he’s not lurking in coffee shops in Portland, Oregon, you’ll find him in the Pacific Northwest’s great outdoors. James has a masters degree in Sociology from the University of Maryland at College Park and a Bachelors degree on Sociology from Earlham College. He loves individual stocks, bonds and precious metals.
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