Consider the challenge below. It's all meant to be a guide you can use to bring more stability and peace into your life.
Start here:
* Offer a suggestion today to someone who frequently disagrees with you. Do this without concern for the person's acceptance of your opinion.
* Encourage the person to convey his/her feelings about your suggestion.
* Take a big, deep breath while they are speaking and focus on what they're saying. Try to see the value in their viewpoint.
* Calmly welcome the feedback.
* Then, gulp, thank him/her politely for the feedback. If it was feedback you didn't like, then thank them sincerely without any stink eye or attitude.
* As you engage in this encounter, note how the interaction makes you feel. Does it make you feel fidgety and tense? Or did you find something helpful in the exchange?
* Make a mental note about whether you want to hold a grudge because their opinion may differ from yours.
* Note if you want to make a snide remark. Or did you realize the conversation helped make you see things differently?
Are you willing to do the exercise above and follow the pointers?
Response
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Not Willing
Willing