Tag Archives: Acceptance

Thanks For All You Do


It’s so important for couples to thank one another for all the helpful things we do to keep our marriage, our hearth, and our health on a positive course!

It matters…it matter a lot!

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People Partnering Productively

“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.”  –  Carl Jung

“Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.”   — Deepak Chopra

I had an invaluable experience last week. Within that experience I learned more than I’ve ever known about:

  • Acceptance
  • Patience
  • Respect
  • Trust
  • Encouragement

One of my pet peeves is when I fail to follow through on a promise and I don’t own that failure. Doesn’t matter if it’s business or personal, it’s humiliating to feel I’ve let someone down. But I learned a long time ago that I feel worse if I don’t call/write and admit I dropped the ball.

Perhaps you can relate?

So I make a conscious effort to do just that…I call/contact them. I do that because I would want others to show me that same courtesy.

This week on FaceBook I posted a status requesting the following:

“If you are a grown person, simply say to me, ‘Gail, I’m sorry I wasn’t able to follow through on what I promised.’

It was a generic request. I meant that with that simple statement to me, my capacity to forgive and forget would be just about limitless. I had no particular person in mind in sending that request.  To my amazement, four people I know direct messaged me and apologized for some trespass against me that I don’t even remember!

What do I make of this? Seems we are all looking for the same thing from others AND ourselves: Acceptance, Patience, Respect, Trust, Encouragement.

Imagine that…

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