Showing posts with label diplomacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label diplomacy. Show all posts

What's the Magic Word?

One of my favorite pasttimes is people-watching.  I like sitting in the Commons or at the mall and just watch how people behave when they are alone and how they interact and treat others.  I find behavior fascinating, and I learn something new about human nature every day.  Most of the time my faith in the kindness in people is strengthened; other times, not so much.


In a previous blog entry, I

ABC's of Healthy Relationships: D



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Damage ControlWith a tip of my hat to David Eddie and Pat Lynch, not one of us is immune from saying something we regretted the moment it falls out of our mouths, or acting like a bonehead on occasion.  When this happens within the context of a relationship, the priority is to set into motion a sincere recovery plan ASAP. 


Beverly Engel adds that damage control "