What Is Important

What Is Important

The basics in human relationships can be summed up with the following thoughts from John C. Maxwell’s book Relationship 101.

The least important word:                   I

The most important word:                   We

The two most important words:           Thank You

The three most important words:        All is forgiven.

The four most important words:         What is your opinion?

The five most important words:          You did a good job.

The six most important words:            I want to understand you better.

Stephen Covey, author of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, wrote this in Habit #5:  Seek first to understand, then to be understood. 

Ah, that is a critical one.  Perhaps it means this:
-We listen more than we speak

-We respect one another

-We see conversations as a two-way street.

I want to understand you better – a marvelous axiom for all of us – in all of life, and in all that is important.

P Michael Biggs

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