Saturday, August 25, 2012

Learn to accept you can't change your partner

"The trouble is I am realistic and he is too ambitious and not realistic," Hy moaned.

take it from me...1 of the things I learn from long-term relationjships is that you can't really change your partner. That's like trying to stop the wind. Life is easier when you give up trying.

But here's another bit of wisdom: both men and women change over time. Some quite a lot. Although we can't force someone to change, there is a deep, slow, natural transformation that occurs with maturity and age.

Saturday, August 18, 2012

Straight talk

"I put truth before peace," John made it very clear in the first 5 minutes of the meeting.

Senior executives have the least time amd least patience for people who beat around the bush. They are generally straightforward, and they expect the same in others.

I have since learned that I must be direct, honest, frank and follow a straight course. I call that straight talk.

Friday, August 10, 2012

The road will come

"my dad starts his chemo treatment on Monday," Barb's solemn SMS read

Whether we accept the journey or not, the road will come. The road always comes. The only question any of us can answer, is how we will choose to meet it.