Creating stronger families and stronger work teams by expressing more appreciation 1.1 2007/05/02 04:47:52.954 GMT-5 2007/05/02 04:57:04.352 GMT-5 Dennis Rivers dennisrivers@newconversations.net Dennis Rivers dennisrivers@newconversations.net appreciation communication conversation encouragement gratitude interpersonal skills In order to build more satisfying relationships with the people around you, express more appreciation, delight, affirmation, encouragement and gratitude. Because life continually requires us to attend to problems and breakdowns, it gets very easy to see in life only what is broken and needs fixing. But satisfying relation-ships (and a happy life) require us to notice and respond to what is delightful, excellent, enjoyable, to work well done, to food well cooked, etc. It is appreciation that makes a relationship strong enough to accommodate differences and disagreements. Thinkers and researchers in many different fields have reached a similar conclusion: healthy relationships, whether in parenting, partnering or work-team building, need a core of mutual appreciation.

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