#GrowNOW The Podcast

The last few episodes have been about decisions: why, when and what. Today we talk about the how? When the dynamic and the reality of a significant relationship has shifted, before we take steps towards breaking something that could be very difficult to restore, we will address in this episode the emotions decision tool and how to apply it . The 5 options that we have in any given moment in a relationship, can help us, hopefully, get some clarity about what will our next step be.

No matter how much love, respect, attraction and complicity exists in a couple, there is an almost definite possibility that they have faced difficulties at some point in their couple. The remarkable thing about people like that is that they didn’t give up too soon, they didn’t take the easy way out.

Last week’s episode we talked about the 5 options that we have in a relationship at any given moment. So when the time are getting hard ( lying, cheating, lack of attention, disrespect, etc ), how do we know which choice out of the 5 is the right one?

With the help of our 3 trusted friends: logic, emotion and intuition, we are equipped to safely and calmly reach the sweet spot of internal alignement and so, reaching a decision that will truly benefit us.

Even the most perfect of relationships have some difficult moments that marked it along the way. And in this episode we refer to the true, deep, and often unconditional feelings that a love relationship can have. No matter how sincere and authentic the bond between 2 people can seem at a certain point, rest assured that challenges were present along the way.

People often think, when something negatively significant happens in a couple, that they have no choice. When in reality, in any given situation, there are always 5 available choices:

1. Accept the situation

2. Leave the relation

3. Change the relationship

4. Change the way we see the situation

5. We can do nothing

Did you ever feel like you have no choice in a relationship?

Imagining that the key to having great relations and connections is our own energy, where can this lead us to?

We all want of that good life, happiness, sense of purpose and fulfilment and sometimes we don’t know how to get it, but most important how to keep it for long. That’s why this episode focuses on the 3 keys of feeling energised which eventually will help us establish better and more powerful connections.

One important tip to analyse if a relationship is going well: assess correctly the “ best case scenario “

2 questions to start this assessment: where are we at and what is the real issue here? We all know that if we look to other people, rather than ourselves, we can immediately tell what the issue is. That is why coaching and consulting is really helpful for many people.

More than sure there is one relationship right now in your life that works just the way it’s supposed to be. Have you ever wondered why?

What is truly the advantage of improving any relationship? Since we decided to have a relationship in the first place, being it love, friends, work or family; why shouldn’t we try to give it our best after all?

The list of advantages is quite long. By having better relationships we could experience more peace, more confidence, more security, better results, joy, performance, etc.

And yet not all our relationships are satisfying. That’s why in this episode we go over those reasons that hold us back from going all in: vulnerability, overthinking, fear of being treated unjustly, fear of being judged, not wanting to get too emotional and a few more.

Are we giving up too soon on some relationships? Are we really doing the work to build healthy relationships?

If you really take the time to analyse our patterns and behaviour in life, we will notice that most of the time we are more afraid of things we don’t know and things we never explore. That’s why is a good idea to train ourselves to make friends with the idea of the unknown, of all the changes are happening constantly around us.

Learning to be the one that takes the first step towards improving a relationship can be one of those things that we have a difficult time with. That’s why we are here today, to learn the advantages of improving ANY relationship, no matter how big or small.

The quality of our relationships determine the quality of our life, to a great extent.

If in the first 3 seasons of the Grow Now Podcast we focused mainly on the business side of connections and interactions, the time has come to take a deeper look at the second layer of our life foundation, the quality of the interconnections with just about everyone around us. While in the business world, we can have an extended network without deep personal connections, the success of our daily wellbeing depends also of the value we attach to every interaction.

In short, this new season strives to give every encounter in your life a new found worth and virtue. Through the power of love, care, connection and removing judgement and attachment, we grow and help others grow.

As the first stepping stone of this new season, we invite you to make an assessment of your happiness/quality regarding the connections you have with your family, friends, coworkers and your social life in general, as this will serve as a baseline to measure your future progress. Remember, we can only improve what gets measured.

This week’s question: Provided you could improve any relationship, would you do it? The answers to be interpreted in next week’s episode.

We welcome the summer break with sweet and sour emotions as we will be closing the 3rd season of the podcast “ The Entrepreneurs Story” but… starting September we will be giving our full attention to the complicated, complex yet so vital topic of RELATIONSHIPS.

Today we would like to encourage you to take that well deserved break over the summer months, focus on relaxing and recharging your mental and emotional system, so that when September comes around, it finds you full of energy and vitality.

Stay safe and be well, dear listeners and friends.

Anxiety is caused by the fear of the unknown and that is something most of us have a hard time dealing with.

The 2 main reasons why we have anxiety in the first place:

1. When we live in a future that is not as clear as we expected

2. When we generalise

Under these conditions, we sometimes create problems where there are none, or we have such a broad perspective over everything that we can’t see anything going right.We become detached from reality in a way.

That’s why this episode has 5 practical steps to stop overdramatising everything.