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Friendship is such a special joy and privilege that it needs to be accorded a degree of careful consideration – there are 7 tips for making and keeping friends, and how to encourage the potential friendship to flower fully.
The 7 tips are structured with the 7 Words System in mind.
Goodbye Reduced To 7 Words Actually: No – boundaries and truth. Let the foundation of friendship be honest and true, don’t give away anything that later will be regretted and not reclaimable. By and large the vast majority of us need to become much less confused about things we choose to have in our lives. This applies to everything, from things that are useful to feelings that are uncomfortable. The problem seems to be to do with how to achieve that clarity and then to uncover the solutions to issues that trouble us. The 7 Words System offers a simple innate procedure that permits us to get hold of a much better appreciation of what it is that we are looking for. It kicks off with the word No. First and foremost we will need to name exactly what it is that actually we don't want, what is not useful, before we can know what we do want.
Goodbye Reduced To 7 Words Actually: Hello – attention and openness. The exchange of attention is primary, the very essence of a connection with someone else. Be open to it.The following phase links with the word Hello. We will need to make ourselves open to new ideas and people if we expect to expand our scope of solutions to the many difficulties that often arise for us. We surely know that? To get something new we will need to draw out our scope and look where we have not previously looked previously. Fresh thoughts, new contacts , new situations and new things are clearly aspects of giving awareness to something we have not until that time lived through. It calls us to replace old for new, that we have something to offer in reasonable return for what are trying to acquire.
Goodbye Reduced To 7 Words Actually: Thanks – appreciation, giving gestures of how much you welcome the friend can take many forms – words, touch, gifts and thoughts – and are required if deepening is to occur. Among all existing options, some are more desirable than others and of course we want them to have a higher value, because we appreciate them more. This is explained by the primary word Thanks. Habitually, we forget the significance of what we have, fall into ungratefulness and are likely to presume things will always be the way they have been before.It's more than just consideration to let somebody see our appreciation for things we cherish; it has a significant effect in helping us to achieve our ends. In some unconscious way, we are attracted to what we convey gratefulness for, and yet it's equally accurate to say that we will be able to attract them to us too. We increase pulling power when we say Thanks and therefore, whenever we do this, we readily bring things to come to us.
Goodbye Reduced To 7 Words Actually: Goodbye – resolution, announcements, movement. Each stage of any relationship is marked by particular irrevocable events that need to be acknowledged.The word Goodbye is one of the seven primary words and relates to a procedure having 4 clearly defined phases. They are: realization, decision, completion and moving on. Goodbye is being said to a possible stage of change, which is observed in simple terms as total refusal of a viable path of action that we had been progressing towards and in future will not pursue. It is a crossroad point in our range of would-be outcomes.Goodbye is different from No in that it suggests that we have had connection already, which now needs to end contrasted with No's rebuttal in the first place. Sincere decisions cut the past away completely and that incisiveness sets up an open door that otherwise does not show itself.
Goodbye Reduced To 7 Words Actually: Please – mutuality of purpose. What is shared cooperatively is the form of the friendship. The future becomes known according to the habits of the past unless we take control of it and shape it to our wants. To do this calls for to have a vision of how we want it to be; this vision has to be very clear, exact and optimistic—and converted into intention. They differ don't they - vision and intention? The first is rather unreal and the second is much more motivated and willful.For a dream to become real there must be help. Nothing can be finished without securing the help of others - this takes expertise, maybe arguments, even inspiration. It is not always compulsory to offer something such as money or money's worth.
Goodbye Reduced To 7 Words Actually: Sorry – remorse, repair. If you hurt someone’s feelings, make amends. Sorry, the 6th primary word, is best seen as repairing harm done because we've been thoughtless or oblivious to the circumstances of someone else. The best strategy is to make sure we forestall the need to say it by being considerate sooner. Why? Well it's because anyone we upset could easily be inclined to act against us and reduce our chances of accomplishing what we intend, so it is simply more prudent to think about others as well as ourselves. It is all to do with being responsible, having some feelings towards someone whom we've upset and making compensation when we've blundered. Only then is it possible to prevent the likelihood or repair bitterness and let go of the enduring nastiness that otherwise would increase and rankle.
Goodbye Reduced To 7 Words Actually: Yes – acceptance, tolerance. It never works out exactly the way we expect! It never will, so we have to live with that – and gracefully is better. The last phase of our 7 Words approach relates with acceptance; there are occasions when we simply have to admit what we cannot change. The word is Yes. It would be nice wouldn't it if we were able to make the world exactly the way we envision it - but in reality we can't. We always need to take what comes, and to take what is not exactly what we asked for.The best habit is to have an expectation that everything in the long run turns around to our advantage, that the modifications to our plans are all improvements when comprehended in the perspective of the longer term. Clearly it's not easy to see it when we are still close and attached to our desires of course not! Yet wait a bit and you may well see that the unlooked-for incidents, the surprises and setbacks are actually the best bits disguised as misfortune.
James Burgess 2009
