How often in conflict are you really interested in what the other parties' viewpoints are? How often are you really curious about why they view the situation the way that they do? How often do you care about why this issue is so important to them? Learning, hearing, and understanding the understories are so important to conflicts. This story is often driving the escalation of conflict and if understood, adjustments and accommodations can be made. 

Why is this issue important to you?

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Have you ever found yourself trapped in a conflict? Have you ever wondered how this could have even gone this far? Conflict is a major change-maker. Conflicts can lead to so much progress. Conflicts can also escalate. Conflicts can also cause destruction. So, what is the difference between conflicts that create progress and conflicts that just turn destructive? In this episode, we explore some of the concepts that are taught in Amanda Ripley's book High Conflict: how we get trapped and how we get out. High or destructive conflicts are often characterized by specific ways of thinking and being. If we can recognize those differences, we can prevent conflict from escalating or from getting trapped in it. 

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Failure is not wasted if we learn from it. Learning isn't reliving the past but learning can be revisiting it and evaluating it to glean lessons that will help us create a plan for the future and ultimately lead us to success. 

The success formula only works when we use it on repeat. One decision, one action, one failure, one lesson will seldom lead us to the success we seek but when we repeat the process we can find success. 

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It's crazy the connection between failure and success. All success will come after some type of failure. And the truth is, success is worth the price we pay in failure. Are you willing to pay the tuition?

Failure doesn't have to be a road block but can be a navigation sign, showing us the way not to go and ultimately helping us choose the way that will work. Don't give up just yet. Failure is the way to success. 

After we decide what we are going to do, the next step is actually doing it. For us to find what works we have to try things until they do work. You never really know if you can ride a bike until you ride the bike. Let's take some action and try some things out. New actions lead to new opportunities. 

How can we set ourselves up for success? For the next 4 episodes, we will work our way through a very simple formula for success. This episode is focused on deciding. We have to make decisions. 

What are some of the reasons we don't want to decide? 

We don't know what is best.

Fear of failure

Fear of consequences

These things keep us suck. Some simple mindset shifts can help us overcome the indecision and choose our way to success. 

Why do so many of our goals are never achieved?

We quit on them. 

It's time to stop quitting on ourselves. Yes, things get hard. Yes, we sometimes fail. Yes, it might get boring. Yes, you might need more training. Yes, you might have to work. But quitting is optional. 

Let's learn. Let's take action till we figure it out. Let's achieve those goals.

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Do you think that you have too much to do and that there is no use in planning? Do you think that things are so unpredictable that planning wouldn't work? Do you think that your to-do list is so long and looking at it one more time will send you running for the hills? 

These are beliefs that keep us stuck and scrambling. It is time to take up planning. 

Planning your day, your week, and your year can lead to a life that is so much more fun and less stressful. 

It's time to plan.

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Has your gratitude practice become a little bit stale? Is it not as effective as it once was or are you seeming to forget more often than you remember? Sounds like it is time to switch it up a bit. 

We know gratitude is a powerful practice but writing, videoing, or pictures are all good options. So often we can get stuck in a trap of using our gratitude practice against us; saying we are grateful but really wishing things were different. How could you be grateful for how things are right now?

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"You must realize, not everything you think is true" The lyrics from 1000 Arms by Blue Rodeo. This statement is so true. The work of realizing that we don't have to believe all our thoughts and we don't have to react to them. We have options in our thinking and our thinking isn't always right. What thought do you need to realize isn't true?

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