Do You Want to Have a Successful Intimate Relationship Next Year? Here Are the Requirements
Written by Doron Gil, Ph.D.
Do you find yourself at the end of this year either without a partner or dissatisfied with your relationship? Do you wish to ensure that next year you’ll have a successful and satisfying relationship? If so, what you need to do is embark on The Journey to Self-Awareness: Understand what has led you to the situation you are currently in, change whatever needs change and become empowered to develop a successful relationship.
IF, AT THE END OF THE YEAR YOU ARE:
1. SINGLE, wishing wholeheartedly to find a partner with whom to develop a successful intimate relationship;
2. SINGLE, afraid to get involved – once again – in an intimate relationship;
3. IN A RELAITONSHIP, on the brinks of a break-down, hoping to cultivate a new successful bond;
4. IN A RELATIONSHIP, desiring to improve it;
THEN -
Embark on THE JOU
EY TO SELF-AWARENESS: take some time to figure out what went wrong regarding relationships this year and take the necessary steps to cultivate a successful bond next year.
WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS TO EMBARK ON THE JOU
EY TO SELF-AWARENESS?
There are 4 basic requirements:
1. BEING MOTIVATED to get to know and understand yourself better;
2. MAKING TIME available to observe, look inwards and learn things about yourself you haven’t known until now;
3. GETTING UP THE COURAGE to acknowledge and accept what you observe and learn;
4. WILLING TO ADMIT MISTAKES and to take responsibility for your part in the failure of your relationships (or lack of).
WHAT DOES THE JOU
EY TO SELF-AWARENESS CONSIST OF?
The Journey consists of 4 components:
1. OBSERVING YOURSELF and your interactions with your partner (or, in retrospect, with past partners);
2. GETTING IN TOUCH with your attitudes, feelings, reactions and behaviors regarding partners and relationships;
3. UNDERSTANDING FACTORS which exert power over your choices and behaviors in and around relationships;
4. BECOMING EMPOWERED to make the necessary changes vital for cultivating a healthy and successful intimate relationship.
HOW CAN YOU BEGIN YOUT JOU
EY TO SELF-AWARENESS?
The way to begin your own Journey to Self-Awareness is to check, within yourself, if you:
1. Feel you comply with the 4 requirements;
2. Are willing to move ahead with the 4 components;
3. Make time to read books and/or attend self-awareness workshops;
4. Take the vow of honesty: promising yourself to acknowledge and accept what you find out about the “real you”.
Embarking on THE JOU
EY TO SELF-AWARENESS will empower you to develop a satisfying intimate relationship next year.
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About the Author
Doron Gil, Ph.D., is an expert on Self-Awareness and Relationships with a 30 year experience as a university teacher, workshop leader, counselor and consultant. He has written more than 130 articles on the subject and is the author of “The Self-Awareness Guide to a Successful Intimate Relationship”. Available as eBook and Paperback: http://amzn.to/eAmMmH
More on Dr. Gil and his book: http://self-awareness-and-relationships.blogspot.com
For a complete list of Dr. Gil’s articles and their links: http://relationship-self-awareness-advice.blogspot.com
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