LIFEDriver #24 Solutions
When you make changes within your life… things change!
Check out the “Solutions” that have been used by others to impact life and work.
Every solution has a: Detailed Purpose, Time Required, Specific Steps, and any needed Templates.
NEXT STEPS: Review the solutions and select at least one solution to implement within your life.
Tell the Truth
PURPOSE: Share your feelings with your spouse, significant other or children to maintain a harmonious relationship.
Important YOU!
PURPOSE: Give or send a thoughtful card with a well-written note inside. People love to see your heartfelt words and thoughts on paper where they can keep it and refer to it whenever they’d like.
Text Time
PURPOSE: Use texting as a way to show appreciation and increase positive communication with those you love. This works especially well for your friends and loved ones who live out of state or who may travel a lot for work.
A Hug a Day Keeps the Doctor Away
PURPOSE: Give a hug to lift serotonin levels, elevate mood, and create happiness. Research shows that hugging can build trust and security, boost oxytocin levels, which heal feelings of loneliness, isolation and anger, boost self-esteem, relax muscles and release tension, balance the nervous system and strengthen the immune system.
The Eyes Have It
PURPOSE: Give your focused attention and pay attention to your nonverbal communication when communicating with others. It will help you to listen and understand others better, as well as make them feel important and heard.
Reach Out and Touch Someone
PURPOSE: Find occasions to offer human touch even if you aren’t a “touchy-feely” person. Touch can decrease blood pressure, reduce stress and anxiety; since it increases levels of serotonin and dopamine.
Kindness is Contagious
PURPOSE: Be the ray of sunshine that others may need. Looking for easy ways to show kindness to people without expecting something in return is like strengthening a muscle—the more you do it, the easier it becomes.
Don't Take People for Granted
PURPOSE: Don’t forget about the small things (holding hands in the mall, kissing each other good night, hugging your kids before they leave for school, putting a note in their backpack or binder, etc.) in this fast-paced world.
Know Thyself and Others
PURPOSE: Read books like The 5 Love Languages or How We Love to get guidance on how we are made up differently so you can learn what is important to those you love. Then share how you need to be loved and practice showing love the way others need it.
