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How to Handle a Woman : Part IV of Tony's blog on creating better relationships

How to handle a woman?

Richard Burton (of all people!) advised us in Camelot :

"How to handle a woman?
There's a way," said the wise old man,
…………………Mark me well, I will tell you, sir:
The way to handle a woman
Is to love her...simply love her...
Merely love her...love her...love her."

If only it were that simple hey fella’s?

You love her to bits, you tell her you love her every single day.  Then one day out of the blue she declares ‘you say you love me but how do I know you aren’t just saying that’

I’m talking – are you listening?

Part 3 of Tony’s blog on Creating Better Relationships

I was musing the other day about just why it is that, so often, when we know something to the point of it being a cliché, we still don’t use that knowledge when we need it.  Take the old saying for instance ‘The carrot or the stick’.  We all know that a reluctant donkey may be moved in one of two ways, attracting it forward with a carrot just in front of its nose or giving it a sharp tap on its hind quarters with a whip.

We may use the ‘carrot or stick’ metaphor when we seek to  introduce co-workers, a friend or a family member to some specific learning or action,  but why is it that all too often we fail to achieve the wished for result?  Could it be that we are using the stick when a carrot would do better or perhaps the other way around?

Would you like Better Relationships?

What Makes People Tick?

Imagine for a moment what it would be like if you got on really well with absolutely everyone.  Never have an argument with your partner or your children.  Friends enjoying mutual pleasures.  Your work colleagues striving for a common goal and, in social groups, politics giving way to total harmony.  How much stress would that take out of your life?

Happy relationships are the key to joy in our lives but even though we really want to get along well with absolutely everyone it seems that isn’t always possible.  Why?  Have you ever asked yourself “Why isn’t everybody like me? …”

New Year’s Resolutions

Why make 'em if you know you'll break 'em?

Someone said to me recently “Why bother when you know you’ll only break them anyway – that just leads to disappointment? “

Do you feel that way?  In that case your new year’s resolution is not a resolution but just some wishful thinking.