Thursday, August 28, 2008

Scheduling Family Meetings for Family Happiness

I just had an idea.

It is inspired by my experiences in resolving misunderstandings and hurt feelings with other human beings, as well as by my experience in guiding a team of employees in the business world.

The ideas is simple: in order for there to be happiness in a family, there needs to be regularly scheduled meetings between family members, for talking, listening to each other, sharing of feelings, and working out frustrations. These meetings should be pre-planned, otherwise they wont just happen of their own accord.

Just the act of talking and hearing each other out can untie so many knots of hurt, and release joy and a sense of security.

Learning how to communicate authentically, calmly and respectfully with our fellow human beings is one of the most important things we could ever learn.

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