Happy Bit: 3 Easy Tips to Help Improve a Challenging Relationship
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2017
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Do you have a relationship that seems more challenging than the others? Maybe it's with a parent or a child, or with a coworker or a neighbor. In this Happy Bit you'll learn 3 easy tips to help you improve that challenging relationship.
This episode is brought to you by Audible and you can get a FREE audio book using my special link: vibranthappybook.com. It's time to make all that summertime driving a little more entertaining.
The 3 easy tips to improve a challenging relationship:
- Write down 10 positives about that person.
- Do something kind for them every day. We love those whom we serve.
- Say something kind to or about that person every day.
Doing these things will help you brain shift into a place of positivity. Like attracts like. When you focus on the positive, your brain will find more of the positive. This happens because of your brain's Reticular Activating System, which filters information in a way to help you support what you believe. If you start to see the positive, your brain will give you more evidence of positivity. You have the power to make any relationship better. Empowering, right? You bet. That's what the Vibrant Happy Women movement is all about.
Want to hear even more about kindness? Listen to my interview with Shaunti Feldhahn.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, Jen here, and this is a happy bit. So the kids are probably out of school by now, |
| 0:07.0 | and that means you'll be doing more driving and be busy taking them here and there, |
| 0:11.3 | and you need a good audiobook to listen to while you're doing that. I want to encourage you to grab |
| 0:17.2 | your free audiobook from audible.com using my special link, Vibranthappybook.com. |
| 0:23.9 | You can get all kinds of amazing books, all the popular ones from Brunay Brown or Elizabeth |
| 0:29.2 | Gilbert or Danielle Laporte, and just listen to them and uplift yourself while you're driving. |
| 0:35.1 | That's VibranthappyBook.com. All right, for today's happy bit, |
| 0:40.3 | I want to talk about relationships. We're talking about marriage in the Vibrant Happy Women |
| 0:45.5 | Academy this week, and so relationships are on my mind. I want each of you to think of that one |
| 0:52.1 | person who you don't really like right now. |
| 0:56.5 | Now, maybe you're amazing and you love everyone and you have no problems, but there might |
| 1:00.3 | be just that one person where you really struggle with that relationship. |
| 1:05.0 | And I have one right in mind immediately. |
| 1:07.3 | I'm sure you can all think of someone. |
| 1:08.7 | Maybe it's a mom and aunt, a brother, your husband, |
| 1:11.0 | your son, your daughter, whatever it is. Think of that person and you'll notice immediately |
| 1:17.3 | negative feelings come to mind. Negative thoughts come to mind. And you don't like it. You don't want it |
| 1:23.3 | to be that way. So let's talk about three strategies that will help you shift that. First, grab a journal or a |
| 1:30.3 | notebook and every morning write down 10 good things about that person. Now you might be laughing and |
| 1:37.7 | thinking, I'm not going to come up with 10 because they are so awful and they're so annoying. |
| 1:42.2 | And 10 things, are you kidding me, Jen? Just do it. And you know what |
| 1:46.9 | you're doing here? You're evoking the positive emotions you need to shift that relationship. |
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