From The Daily Dialogue
From The Daily Dialogue
Broadcast of 11/3/98
Subject: [DailyDialogue #304] Relationship Inventory
"Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek most to know themselves"
- William Shakespeare
Once a year, many businesses write a list of goods in stock. As the year is coming to an end, it's a great time to evaluate the assets of our relationship resources. As we make an itemized report of the good in our relationships this year, we can make alterations so that we experience an even greater good.
The root of the word inventory comes from the Latin word inventorium which means alteration. The process of coming to know ourselves by doing a fact finding is the beginning of a new way of life.
The purpose of a relationship inventory is to look at both our strengths and our stretches. It involves taking stock of our feelings, beliefs and attitudes with honesty to find what is working in our relationships and what is blocking our experience of love. We change not by becoming someone other than who we are but by becoming fully aware of who we are.
When we reveal what is going on internally, our outer circumstances change. This process involves looking at ourselves honestly without judgment so that we will experience more success in the enterprise of our life.
Experiment: Take stock of the role you play in your relationships. Write down how you contribute, have fun, create space, are intimate, express your masculinity and femininity, deal with stress, handle finances, handle household chores, spend your spare time and plan your social life. Then, complete the sentence, "In the future, in my relationships, I want to..."
Affirmation: Every day in every way, my relationships are getting better and better.
The Daily Dialogue is published each day of 1998 by e-mail. Copyright 1998, Eddy Brame and Marty Crouch, All rights reserved.
