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In the race of life, the measure of a man is his character. It is our character that produces both our greatest successes and our worst failures. In the real world, people only cheer for the winners... not the losers. And too often the losers get laughed at or jeered... or perhaps at the best, they are simply ignored altogether.
If everyone in the world was lined up together and given the choice of being in one of two groups, where one group was for people who thought that life was very easy, and the other group was for all those folks who thought that life was very hard, which group do you think would be biggest of the two groups. It's easy to assume that the group for those who thought that life was very difficult would be much bigger of the two groups.
If you already think that life is very easy, Solving Conflicts is not for you. Our focus is for those who think that sometimes life can be very hard and very challenging... and who also would be the type of people that could appreciate someone on their side to cheering for them, "Finish Strong!"
Making a better choice next time is often the only solution that is available to us for the last time we made a mistake or were involved in a conflict. This is the entire purpose of Solving Conflicts. That is to say that it is our entire purpose to help people identify what is going on their life in terms of the foundation of their character, and to help them see things in plain black and white.
You can have a clear idea of what Solving
Conflicts Part Two is by comparing it to this easy child's
fairy-tale. However, we have changed the story just a little bit
to illustrate an idea.
Will you imagine for a moment that Santa Claus was working on his famous Naughty
or Nice list? He is checking to see who would get gifts and who would
not. Are you okay with that so far?
Now, imagine Santa was getting a bit upset with the job of keeping track
of so many people. There were too many people to tally up and be finished in
time. Moreover, there was too many that were nearly as naughty as they were
nice. It was getting very hard to choose. In fact, he discovered that his nice
list was shrinking every year, and he was starting to get worried.
Then one day, one of his Elves came up to him with a grand idea. The Elf said, "Hey,
Santa Claus, I have a grand idea for you to cheer you up. Why don't you help
people out a little bit more? Why don't you just help people to learn to be
nicer instead of not giving them any presents when they are naughty? That way,
if everybody learns to be nice, you can just throw away that whole Naughty
or Nice list. Then you can simply bring gifts to everybody in the whole world!"
Santa thought aloud and scratched his head, "Hmm!" He said to the Elf, "I'm
guessing you have such a plan all worked out. How we can teach all the people
of the world to be nice instead of naughty?"
The Elf said, "Yes, Santa, I do ...ah, err ...that is to say, the Elves and
I have worked out a plan. Every person in the whole world can learn to be nice
instead of naughty. In fact, Santa, we put it on the internet so that everyone
in the world can start learning right away!"
Learning to be nice instead of naughty!
Therein is the essence of Solving
Conflicts. You
will be making a list & checking it twice (or more) to find out
whether you have been naughty or nice. However, if there are things
that you find out you have been naughty in, you will be able to learn
about it. You will learn how to know yourself better. You will learn
about alternatives that you can choose to improve your life and relationships...one
good choice at a time!
Please Note: We
would like to offer you just a brief word of encouragement here before
you continue on with Chapter Nine. As it is true of nearly all new
things that we learn, sometimes the new things seem hard at first.
However, after we spend just a little bit
more time with them, we look back and realize that it was not nearly
as hard as we first imagined it would be.
We can assure you that Solving
Conflicts will be no different. It
all becomes clear with a little time and a little effort.
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