Monday, June 26, 2006

How a Technique From a Dolphin Trainer can Help Your Marriage?

Be warned this article is written from a female perspective, but the techniques are gender neutral. What is clever is those behaviours that we re-discover in animals are 100% human too. And with some common sense they could be applied to our daily life.

What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage - New York Times: "What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage
By AMY SUTHERLAND

AS I wash dishes at the kitchen sink, my husband paces behind me, irritated. 'Have you seen my keys?' he snarls, then huffs out a loud sigh and stomps from the room with our dog, Dixie, at his heels, anxious over her favorite human's upset.

In the past I would have been right behind Dixie. I would have turned off the faucet and joined the hunt while trying to soothe my husband with bromides like, 'Don't worry, they'll turn up.' But that only made him angrier, and a simple case of missing keys soon would become a full-blown angst-ridden drama starring the two of us and our poor nervous dog.

Now, I focus on the wet dish in my hands. I don't turn around. I don't say a word. I'm using a technique I learned from a dolphin trainer."

Wednesday, June 07, 2006

About Responsability


Many times we hide behind excuses, and we try to avoid our responsibility for where we are in this life.
If you think that you are a victim of your past, just remember that no matter how bad that was, you are the only master of your future. Stack the cards in your favor and start acting towards your goals.

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