"100 Ways to Improve Your Relationships"
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1. Make time commitments that are realistic and possible.
2. Ensure you do everything you can to meet your commitments.
3. Don’t take promises lightly, be honest and keep them.
2. Ensure you do everything you can to meet your commitments.
3. Don’t take promises lightly, be honest and keep them.
4. Make breakfast for someone in bed.
5. Send someone a handwritten thank you note for something they did.
6. Leave a message or note telling someone what you appreciate about them.
5. Send someone a handwritten thank you note for something they did.
6. Leave a message or note telling someone what you appreciate about them.
7. Turn the TV off and have a real conversation.
8. Upgrade your communication style.
9. Talk about what you both want out of a relationships.
8. Upgrade your communication style.
9. Talk about what you both want out of a relationships.
10. Find a chore you can do with another person.
11. Offer to do a regular activity together.
12. Buy groceries together.
11. Offer to do a regular activity together.
12. Buy groceries together.
13. Go Shopping together.
14. Organize a meal out with someone for friends.
15. Go camping together.
14. Organize a meal out with someone for friends.
15. Go camping together.
16. Take a road trip together.
17. Have a staring contest.
18. Have a picnic together.
17. Have a staring contest.
18. Have a picnic together.
19. Schedule 10 minutes every day to talk (with NO distractions).
20. Be spontaneous and energetic.
21. Spend time researching great relationships.
20. Be spontaneous and energetic.
21. Spend time researching great relationships.
22. Learn from relationship masters.
23. Read biographies of great relationship builders.
24. Buy and read books on relationships.
23. Read biographies of great relationship builders.
24. Buy and read books on relationships.
25. Learn from relationship masters.
26. Read biographies of great relationship builders.
27. Buy and read books on relationships.
26. Read biographies of great relationship builders.
27. Buy and read books on relationships.
28. Actually phone person your Facebook friends.
29. Limit your online friend's lists to those you want to be friends with.
30. Don’t make lame excuses for things, be honest
29. Limit your online friend's lists to those you want to be friends with.
30. Don’t make lame excuses for things, be honest
31. Use encouraging positive words instead of negative or critical responses.
32. Learn some cellphone etiquette and shut your phone off once in a while.
33. NEVER be negative or critical in an email – its too dangerous and easily misinterpreted.
32. Learn some cellphone etiquette and shut your phone off once in a while.
33. NEVER be negative or critical in an email – its too dangerous and easily misinterpreted.
34. Be a “yes” type of person when doing things for others.
35. Learn to say “no” to keep your priorities in check.
36. Teach someone how to do something.
35. Learn to say “no” to keep your priorities in check.
36. Teach someone how to do something.
37. Exercise together.
38. Make friendly competitions for achievement.
39. Support each other in your actions/challenges.
38. Make friendly competitions for achievement.
39. Support each other in your actions/challenges.
40. Take up a new hobby together to build a common interest.
41. Never eat alone.
42. Take and print photographs of activities together.
41. Never eat alone.
42. Take and print photographs of activities together.
43. Ask for help when you need it.
44. Opening share your beliefs and values.
45. Stick to your beliefs and express why.
44. Opening share your beliefs and values.
45. Stick to your beliefs and express why.
46. Know your moral principles and stick to themT.
47. Share your spiritual personality.
48. In challenging situations, ask yourself, “What would Jesus do?”
47. Share your spiritual personality.
48. In challenging situations, ask yourself, “What would Jesus do?”
49. Learn behavioral models (like DISC) to communicate better.
50. Learn personality models (like Meyers-Briggs) to apply personality tips.
51. Be willing to have those necessary and crucial conversions.
50. Learn personality models (like Meyers-Briggs) to apply personality tips.
51. Be willing to have those necessary and crucial conversions.
52. Create your own bucket list, share it and do many of them together.
53. Improve your telephone skills.
54. Give a gift that is more than a purchased item.
53. Improve your telephone skills.
54. Give a gift that is more than a purchased item.
55. Give genuine compliments on a regular basis.
56. Surprise someone with a kind act towards them relationships and friends.
57. Have conversations where one of you actively listens and ONLY repeats what you heard in your own words.
56. Surprise someone with a kind act towards them relationships and friends.
57. Have conversations where one of you actively listens and ONLY repeats what you heard in your own words.
58. Share your spiritual beliefs with each other.
59. Pray together.
60. Take up learning a new sport together.
59. Pray together.
60. Take up learning a new sport together.
61. Take responsibility for your own happiness in the relationship without burdening or expected the other person to do that for you.
62. Tell one another why and how they make you a better person.
63. Identify and compliment anything you see them improve.
62. Tell one another why and how they make you a better person.
63. Identify and compliment anything you see them improve.
64. Be gracious and quick to give an apology.
65. Forgive one another quickly and completely.
66. Stop complaining and start appreciating.
65. Forgive one another quickly and completely.
66. Stop complaining and start appreciating.
67. Laugh together.
68. Cry together.
69. Serve others.
68. Cry together.
69. Serve others.
70. Conquer a fear (like heights or fear of a certain animal) together.
71. Never participate in gossip.
72. Don’t share private relationship information that deserves to be kept private.
71. Never participate in gossip.
72. Don’t share private relationship information that deserves to be kept private.
73. Be spontaneous with activities and have fun.
74. Never try to change someone else, change yourself instead.
75. Avoid blaming others.
74. Never try to change someone else, change yourself instead.
75. Avoid blaming others.
76. Take time to think about your relationships in order to improve them.
77. Make relationships priority and make time to work on them.
79. Set some goals and work specifically on your relationships.
77. Make relationships priority and make time to work on them.
79. Set some goals and work specifically on your relationships.
79. Expose your vulnerabilities.
80. Socialize with friends of friends.
81. Compromise to resolve disputes.
80. Socialize with friends of friends.
81. Compromise to resolve disputes.
82. Be generous with expenses and money.
83. Live below your means so you can save money and prevent money stress in your relationships.
84. Be humble, not boastful.
83. Live below your means so you can save money and prevent money stress in your relationships.
84. Be humble, not boastful.
85. Take a weekend retreat together.
86. Attend a relationships course.
87. Put your self in other people’s shoes to gain perspective.
86. Attend a relationships course.
87. Put your self in other people’s shoes to gain perspective.
88. Keep in touch often.
89. Value what you have in each relationship and be grateful for it in conversations.
90. Highlight and recognize every person’s specialty
89. Value what you have in each relationship and be grateful for it in conversations.
90. Highlight and recognize every person’s specialty
91. Avoid assumptions by voicing questions and paraphrasing.
92. Value your own time and don’t waste other’s time.
93.Use humor and don’t take things too seriously
92. Value your own time and don’t waste other’s time.
93.Use humor and don’t take things too seriously
94. Building relationships takes time so be patient.
95. Change things up with variety and by getting out of your comfort zone.
96. Have empathy and express it.
95. Change things up with variety and by getting out of your comfort zone.
96. Have empathy and express it.
97. Study and improve your body language.
98. Listen to music together.
99. Tell the truth (in a kind way) even if it might be hurtful.
100. Put the level of effort in, that you want to get out!
98. Listen to music together.
99. Tell the truth (in a kind way) even if it might be hurtful.
100. Put the level of effort in, that you want to get out!
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