Have you realized the #1 Key to successful relationships is that if you want THEM to care about you then YOU need to prove that you care about them? And what I find is that if we have a habit of judging this blocks our ability to connect in the most successful way; in a way that is mutually beneficial to us and them for a long, long time.
Did you know that if you are going to run a Facebook Ad; Facebook says that the most popular word for use in the ad is “You”! And that means it’s not “I” and not even “we”. So how do you create language that really motivates people and utilizes the word “YOU” as often as possible and has you really meaning it?
“You have an internal model of what you are like. In it, you’re awesome. You are competent, smart, (and) funny — people hang on your every word. Then you do something dumb. What happens in your head? You find yourself trying to rationalize your behavior, or just trying to bury it. Your brain can’t cope with the idea that what you did wasn’t in line with your idea of you. Congratulations, you have just experienced cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is when you hold two conflicting ideas in your head. Rationally we know that something isn’t right, but we’ll try and use different justification strategies to resolve the conflict. Usually these thoughts are about ourselves — we like to think of ourselves as smart, but worry that we’re stupid. Any evidence for the latter requires some serious mental gymnastics for us to keep going and not dissolve into a curled up ball of self-doubt. But the upside is that this doubt can be a significant driving force for us to succeed and get better. We want to conquer this self-doubt and are always on the look-out for anything that can help us.” From Facebook Ad training on a fascinating topic called “Cognitive Dissonance”
We have all been there, haven’t we? We have a goal and if we don’t reach it we may judge our self or judge people in our life or we may rationalize our behavior even if we know that what works best is a more practical and profound investigation and commitment to better results in the future. We can learn to cease judging; we can learn to evolve and that is the result everyone seeks, isn’t’ it?
The #2 Key to successful relationships is that acceptance is way to transform any relationship. Just as “feeling the burn” and continuing to exercise is the first step to the best workout, letting someone be as they are if they are a friend, colleague, or loved one is the unconditional love from which you can move forward, motivating them to better and more effective behaviors. Even in the most drastic scenario, if your loved one is an addict, please know that every successful family who worked with me and created sobriety within the family began with a shift to acceptance and THEN motivating their loved one to detox.
When you judge you usually are very harsh with yourself and that can have so many negative effects- on your own health, on all your existing and potential relationships and even on your financial picture because all money is “OPM”, other people’s money and that means the better you are at motivating people, the more your wealth can grow and continue to grow. For a copy of The 6 Part Conversation that is the basis of The Heartspace® System please email me at [email protected]
Most often people who have a habit of being judgmental absorbed it from one or both parents or caregivers when they were small children. And unless they were trained to notice this; replace this old habit and learn Empathy they will still be judging, thinking that it works. Or they believe that their judgments are valid and often believe that anyone would have the same judgments that they have. They often believe that having those judgments is beneficial when in fact it ruins every relationship that is touched by judgment. When you lose a relationship that is important to you, you may be tempted to judging the person who has left. Then after a while; sometimes a lifetime or decades or a few years the person with the habit of judging may begin to see that they've lost something of value. It is at that time that someone with a habit of judging may begin to be ready to acquire a new way of thinking, listening, speaking, and action. And again Cognitive Dissonance is the gift that keeps on giving.
It’s always the perfect time to learn Heartspace® language, and let go of judging and criticizing and becoming the most peaceful and powerful motivator that you can learn to be. And the longer you do this; the better your results and your health and wealth.
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