100 Ways to Improve Your Relationships
- Make breakfast for someone in bed
- Send someone a hand written thank you note for something they did
- Leave a message or note telling someone what you appreciate about them
- Make time commitments that are realistic and possible
- Ensure you do everything you can to meet your commitments
- Don’t take promises lightly, be honest and keep them
- Turn the TV off and have a real conversation
- Upgrade your communication style
- Talk about what you both want out of a relationships
- Find a chore you can do with another person
- Offer to do a regular activity together
- Buy groceries together
- Go Shopping together
- Organize a meal out with someone for friends
- Go camping together
- Take a road trip together
- Have a staring contest
- Have a picnic together
- Schedule 10 minutes everyday to talk (with NO distractions)
- Be spontaneous and energetic
- Spend time researching great relationships
- Learn from relationship masters
- Read biographies of great relationship builders
- Buy and read books on relationships
- Put your relationship time BEFORE work, overtime or chores
- Buy and gift a simple gift that reminds you of that person
- Keep in touch with friends at least monthly even when living afar
- Actually phone in person your facebook friends
- Limit your online friends lists to those you want to be friends with
- Don’t make lame excuses for things, be honest
- Use encouraging positive words instead of negative or critical responses
- Learn some cellphone etiquette and shut your phone off once in a while
- NEVER be negative or critical in an email - its too dangerous and easily misinterpreted
- Be a “yes” type of person when doing things for others
- Learn to say “no” to keep your priorities in check
- Teach someone how to do something
- Exercise together
- Make friendly competitions for achievement
- Support each other in your actions / challenges
- Take up a new hobby together to build a common interest
- Never eat alone
- Take and print photographs of activities together
- Ask for help when you need it
- Opening share your beliefs and values
- Stick to your beliefs and express why
- Know your moral principles and stick to themT
- Share your spiritual personality
- In challenging situations, ask yourself, “What would Jesus do?”
- Learn behavioral models (like DISC) to communicate better
- Learn personality models (like Meyers-Briggs) to apply personality tips
- Be willing to have those necessary and crucial conversions
- Create your own bucket list, share it and do many of them together
- Improve your telephone skills
- Give a gift that is more than a purchased item
- Give genuine compliments on a regular basis
- Surprise someone with a kind act towards them
- Have conversations where one of you actively listens and ONLY repeats what you heard in your own words
- Share your spiritual beliefs with each other
- Pray together
- Take up learning a new sport together
- Take responsibility for your own happiness in the relationship without burdening or expected the other person to do that for you
- Tell one another why and how they make you a better person
- Identify and compliment anything you see them improve
- Be gracious and quick to give an apology
- Forgive one another quickly and completely
- Stop complaining and start appreciating
- Laugh together
- Cry together
- Serve others
- Conquer a fear (like heights or fear of a certain animal) together
- Never participate in gossip
- Don’t share private relationship information that deserves to be kept private
- Be spontaneous with activities and have fun
- Never try to change someone else, change yourself instead
- Avoid blaming others
- Take time to think about your relationships in order to improve them
- Make relationships priority and make time to work on them
- Set some goals and work specifically on your relationships
- Expose your vulnerabilities
- Socialize with friends of friends
- Compromise to resolve disputes
- Be generous with expenses and money
- Live below your means so you can save money and prevent money stress in your relationships
- Be humble, not boastful
- Take a weekend retreat together
- Attend a relationships course
- Put your self in other people’s shoes to gain perspective
- Keep in touch often
- Value what you have in each relationship and be grateful for it in conversations
- Highlight and recognize every person’s specialty
- Avoid assumptions by voicing questions and paraphrasing
- Value your own time and don’t waste other’s time
- Use humor and don’t take things too seriously
- Building relationships takes time so be patient
- Change things up with variety and by getting out of your comfort zone
- Have empathy and express it
- Study and improve your body language
- Listen to music together
- Tell the truth (in a kind way) even if it might be hurtful
- Put the level of effort in, that you want to get out!
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