What ARE the Keys to Amazing Relationships?

As humans we like to complicate matters.

We drift away from ourselves only to find our way home. We search far and wide for riches and fame only to discover that what we seek – what we need more than anything else in the whole wide world – is to be loved and cared for. To feel safe. To be ourselves.

The ONLY PLACE we can feel these feelings and experience this comfort is when we are at home – WITHIN ourselves.

This is one of the KEYS to creating amazing relationships – probably the most important key to success: BE YOUR BEST.

When you can be your best –

• At home, with your partner/spouse and your kids 
• At work, with your boss, your colleagues, and your subordinates
• In the community with your neighbors and friends
• With others including (and especially) your parents
• And most importantly, with YOURSELF

Then you enjoy the peace and freedom that you long for.

Every struggle and stressor and frustration you have can be looked at in terms of a relationship.

For instance, if you struggle with your weight, then the relationship you need to assess and reevaluate is the one you have with your body – and perhaps with food.

Whatever your pain and anguish, assess your relationship with that outcome.

If you are in great debt, assess the relationship you have with money – and with success. If you want to be in a romantic relationship but you have not yet found the “right” person, you may be looking for something outside you for the love you so desperately want and need to give yourself.

Another KEY TO SUCCESS in relationships is to create a VISION for the relationship. What do you want for this relationship? What feels good for you?

Too often, we do not take the time to consider the kind of relationship we want to enjoy or experience. What IS the relationship you would like to have with your boss? How do you want to feel in the relationship with your Mom or your Dad at this point in your life?

Taking the time to consider – to dream about and envision – what you want is crucial because in order to create something amazing, you have to know what it is you are trying to create!

With every relationship – be it with a person OR with some aspect of your life such as money or food or material things – there is much richness for you to learn from so that you can develop, mature and grow.

Life is an experience – we are here at this time so that we can learn, grow, teach, experience, and love. Enjoying the ride, well, that’s a conscious choice we each must make.

Life is not easy. Who say’s it’s meant to be? Relationships in particular can be extremely challenging!

But relationships challenge us in ways that afford us the opportunity to learn and grow and stretch ourselves (often, we have to get over ourselves) so that we get stronger and can experience more of what feels good.

If we choose to, that is.

Two (of the seven) KEYS to SUCCESS in creating AMAZING relationships are:

1)      Create a Compelling Vision for Success

2)      Be Your Best

What is THE FIRST STEP you need to take to create AMAZING relationships in your life?

I would suggest taking a look – assessing – where you are hurting the most. Where’s your pain? Start there. If you ease your burden, then you have space to consider your vision, what you want – what feels good for you that you would want to add into your life. (“HAVING SPACE” is another KEY to success.)

If you are not experiencing a lot of pain right now, great! Then, what might YOUR first step be?

I’d love to hear from you. Leave your comments below or email me directly at Julie@NurturingYourSuccess.com.

Your partner for success,

Coach Julie ~ Nurturing Your Success