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What Do Your Relationships Say About You?
What Do Your Relationships Say About You?
Every now and again, we are confronted with a series of questions about achievement, failure and success. We can bury the answers in denial, or we can face the truth about who we are and what we’ve done with our lives over the last 12 months or more.
And sometimes it’s not only about our outer achievements. It can also be about our inner achievements too.
It may also be about the relationship you have developed with yourself and how it has impacted on the relationships you have with others around you.
Better still, if you’ve been following my blogs and my articles (see links below), you will have gleaned that we attract people who share similar (childhood) experiences to us. This is not always immediately evident. Sometimes it takes time to truly get to know someone.
But, how on earth can we listen, know and understand others — if we haven’t learnt to listen, know and understand ourselves?
And this takes time.
In the meantime, as you become more aware, you will have also gleaned that the people you attract — act as your ‘mirror’. They reflect who you are, what you are like, what you dislike and so on. It is therefore crucial that you spend time watching those that you’ve chosen to surround yourself with — because they will tell you an enormous amount about yourself.
On the other hand, whom…