YOUR LIFE A-Z: TALK

TALK IS SO IMPORTANT!

TALK

Do you TALK enough?  When you TALK what do you TALK about it?  To TALK is to communicate with words and TALK can take place at many levels.  TALK can be chitchat, which comprises of words that are platitudes and connections at the same time.  If you  don’t chitchat then you will  probably never advance toward a deep meaningful TALK with someone else.   Then there is informational TALK.  That level of TALK is about sharing necessary information on a need to know basis.  Using words to express your thoughts and feelings is an important skill to learn and to practice.  TALK is the language of connecting and getting around in the word.  Without TALK no conversations take place and the world can become a lonely and isolated place.  Conversations are necessary for us as humans and TALK  is essential for connected intimate relationships.  Your interpersonal relationships require TALK on both the chitchat and on a deep meaningful level.  Don’t ignore the relationships next to you.  Tend to those relationships like a beautiful garden,  fertilize them with daily TALK.   Small words such as, “I love you;” “How was your day?;”  or even a wink across the room can be the TALK that keeps the relationship garden flourishing.  All gardens require weeding and that requires some difficult TALK.  It is important to be able to tell your relationships what you like and what you don’t like.  Maybe you don’t want pansies in your garden,  then you need to TALK about that too.  Connect today with a TALK within all of your relationships.

YOUR LIFE A-Z: BYPASS

BYPASS PEACEFULLY

BYPASS

Do you know that you do not have to take the bait in a conversation that can potentially lead to an argument?  You can actually BYPASS situations that can lead to chaos, arguments, and unnecessary grief.  In road construction a BYPASS is built in order to manage traffic congestion allowing traffic that has no need to travel through the center of town.  It is possible that you spend much of your time and energy exhausting yourself in someone else’s drama, chaos, or problem when you could actually BYPASS it all together.  If you have children you are granted many opportunities each day to BYPASS a conflict by not engaging in the constant demands to know why or why not.  BYPASSING situations that can entangle you takes wisdom and foresight to think ahead and ask yourself some important questions about your current situation.  BYPASS situations that are going to make you fret or upset afterwards.  Do you really need to share your political or religious opinion with someone you know already is on a different page or even a different planet that you are?  What is the point?  What do you really gain? Political or religious dialogues are for those of similar interests or have an open mind to discuss certain points of view.  For instance, two political liberals might discuss the pros and cons of the potential candidates, but there is no reason for a conservative and a liberal to have a discussion.  Minds are already made up so BYPASS the rhetoric and engage in topics of mutual interest.