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In the last couple of weeks, I participated in several communication training seminars. As a trainer, I have a huge responsibility to communicate in a correct, honest, benevolent way. Apart from one judgmental word, I was disciplined enough to stick to these principles. But what happens when I'm not in the trainer role? My words don't create the message in the other I intended to make—a usual experience with my kids when I feel my words go in one ear and out the other. As a communication trainer, I'd like to figure out what goes wrong in these situations.

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As people, we are social creatures living in bonds of relationships. Some of these relationships are loving, where we are equal partners, and some are challenging to participate in or even just to endure. Loving relationships need constant attention and nurturing.Then there are those relationships where you are challenged–what is in your capacity to do?

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These are the times for changing your life–there are truck-loads of books, sites and blogs about change, personal growth, and self-improvement. You can find Eastern teachings, spiritualism, management tips, minimalism and environmentalism - you name it.

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I am grateful to be living in a loving relationship with my partner, for more than ten years now. I also have a good relationship with my children–and I even count those times when they use all their creative energies to annoy us until it is unbearable, as well as those times when I am too tired to be a patient parent. In the past, I was asked several times what my “secret” was and my usual answer was work. Now a friend changed my perspective and I rather answer: it is an investment of energy. The nourishment of relationships needs energy, and most of it is time–our scarcest resource.

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