Unconditional for 1 Year

“I’ll start being nicer to my wife when she stops whinging and complaining!” says Ray.

“If my husband wants me to show him more affection, he better start being more sensitive to my needs!” says Amanda.

If you do this, you get that. If you don’t have that, then you can’t be this. Take a look at just about any area of human activity and you’ll find that it operates on certain conditions. ‘A’ must match up with ‘B’ in order to attain ‘C’. All of our systems – justice, legal, education, law enforcement, government, transport, social, you name it – they all have conditions and criteria that must be met, in order for them to serve us well. However, when it comes to relationships, it is often the unconditional acts that have the greatest power.

New Year’s Marriage Resolution

Can you look back (in your mind’s eye) and identify a particular year that you could refer to as the best year of your marriage? Usually, there are certain events, or a string of events, which occurred at a time in the history of your marriage that provide you with significant memories; memories that impact on the feelings you have for your spouse. All of this occurs in the realm of your ‘hindsight’.

An Everlasting Gift

Christmas: it’s the time of year when gift-giving goes into hyper-drive. Some love it. Some hate it. Many simply go through the motions. Then, in less than a month, a couple of weeks or maybe even just a few days after that special annual event, almost all of the novelty and wow-factor of those gifts have dimmed to a faint and distant glimmer. Sadly, the most lasting memory of Christmas is often best articulated by the first credit card bill that arrives in January.

What does a CRM really mean for your business?

Here’s a BIG tip…

CRM = Customer RELATIONSHIP Management

It’s primarily the RELATIONSHIPS you have with your customers that will determine whether or not you remain in business. To put it more bluntly, and in monetary terms; the strength of your customer relationships will be clearly reflected in your bank balance.

What’s Your Competitive Edge?

Mistakenly, most businesses try to compete by offering lower prices or a plethora of “added value” giveaways. Whilst that might sound like a good plan, it’s actually a win-lose plan and the only real winner is your customer, not you. Consider this… the big players don’t compete with each other on price. They just keep advertising their products and are not reactive to their competitors’ activities. However, chances are, you don’t have the same marketing budget as they do, right? So, if it’s not price or giveaways, what is your competitive edge?

Plan to LOVE

Every business, from the smallest one-man operation to the multi-national mega-company, will succeed or fail on the strength or weakness of planning. Winston Churchill gave us the phrase, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail,” and year after year the litany of failed businesses are testimony to his wisdom. Unfortunately, the same can be said for many a failed marriage.

All Relationships Matter

Becoming parents was a welcomed and planned addition to our happy home; or so it seemed. Years later that ‘addition’ feels more like a transition; it’s as if we have moved away from being husband and wife to only ever being Mum and Dad. What happened to us? What happened to our marriage?

‘Til Death Do Us Part

The romanticism of this universal phrase is encapsulated in the equally romantic notion of “…and they lived happily ever after.” The wedding industry is as viable as ever; and it continues to feed the professions of marriage counseling and family law, also as viable as ever. So what does “…‘til death do us part” really mean these days?

How To FACE Your Marriage

“The best decade of my marriage is about to begin!” That’s what you believe, right?! Regardless of the state of your marriage; if it really was just a simple matter of choice, would you choose 2011 to be the beginning of the best decade of your marriage, in advance?

Marriage is 100:100

How’s your marriage?
Do you ever think about divorce?
Are you married for life or just for now?

If the current divorce rates are anything to go by, then, on average (if you are married or you’re thinking about getting married), the chances of your marriage lasting ‘til death do you part’ is about 50:50.