Priorities in a marriage often get turned around. This is especially true if you have children. Children tend to get the majority of our attention because they have greater needs. Since women typically do the lions share of child care, husbands need to make sure their wives are well taken care of. One way to do this is to Always Greet Your Wife First.
Husbands, if you want your wife to adore you, develop this simple habit. This minor adjustment will make her feel special and will let her know she is your priority.
Heres how this works: Husbands, which family member generally gets to you first when you arrive home each day from work? Your children, right? They are so excited to see you. They practically knock you down with their enthusiasm, this is almost impossible to resist. Most husbands greet the children first, but for the sake of the children as well as your wife, do not do this. Always Greet Your Wife First.
Before I tell you why, let me give the husbands a little inside information that I have picked up as a marriage and family therapist. Your wife typically hides from you when youre expected to arrive home. She wants you to be interested enough and care enough to come find her. If you think about it isnt she normally in her closet or in the laundry room when you get home? Do not stop and read the mail. Do not sit in your recliner. Go find her.
Instead of stopping to hug the children, say to them, Yall help me find Momma.
They will gladly help and you rush to where your wife is. Greet her with enthusiasm. Think about how your children and your dog greet you. Show about the same degree of enthusiasm. Look into her eyes. Embrace her. Tell her how glad ou are to see her.
This kind of greeting shows her honor. It automatically conveys a message that she is special to you and she is your priority. It isnt hard to do but its impact will blow her doors off.
After you have greeted her enthusiastically, greet your children with a similar response. The reason behind this relates to a matter of developing respect from your children for their mother. In most homes, the father can tell the children to do something and the children do it immediately. However, their mother can tell the children to do the same thing and the children give her a hard timed about it. Greeting your wife first helps squash this behavior.
When you greet your children first, then your wife, you are giving the children the message that they are more important than their Momma. They start believing that their daddy holds them in greater esteem than he does their Momma. Thus, they do not have to do what she says. However, when you greet their Momma first, then they see that you hold her in greater esteem and they will do the same. They will then be quicker to do what she says.
Someone will greet them first when they reach adulthood but for now, honor their Momma. Try this out today. You will feel better about yourself as a husband. The love and respect that you show towards your wife will come back to you multiplied.
Back To Your Wife
The NLP SMART goal setting technique can provide a great starting place for your new year's resolutions. Once you have run it through this system, you should have all the information you need to get you exactly what you want!
As a taster, try cross referencing your goal against the SMART criteria here:
S- Simple and specific. Your goal should be stated as simply as possible. If you write out the details of your goal you will be more likely to remember it and stick to it. A bit like when you do your supermarket shopping, you are more likely to remember what you are supposed to be getting and stick to your list if you have written it down- even if you forget to take the list with you. You should also make your goal as simple to achieve as possible as the unconscious mind will always follow the path of least effort. If faced with a choice of ?do this it's really complicated and difficult? or ?do nothing? you can guess what your subconscious will support you in doing. In the same way, it will be easier for your mind to stick to specific elements of your goal that you need to bring to fruition rather than a random set of ideas that you might achieve maybe, one day.
M- Meaningful and measurable. The goals or resolutions you set for yourself should be meaningful to you, not something that someone else wants you to achieve or something you think you should achieve but something that you really want. There should also be a way to measure the difference between where you are currently and where you will be/what will be different once you have achieved your goal.
A- Achievable and act as if. Your goal must be achievable. For example, if you goal is to lose 4 stone, question whether this is something that is possible for you to achieve. On the face of it, it probably reads as if that is achievable, but for someone who wants to do so whilst eating junk food and not doing any exercise, then it probably is not achievable. Acting as if is all about getting yourself into the positive state you would be feeling if you had already achieved your goal. Doing this helps you to feel more motivated to continue with your goal as well as sending out a clear signal to the universe to say that you are ready to live your life in the way you will once your goal is achieved.
R- Realistic and ecological. If your goal is unrealistic you will struggle to make it a success. It may be that there are just certain elements of you goal that you need to adjust in order to make it a success. For example, you may need to adjust the time period in which you wish to achieve your goal to make it more realistic. When your goal is also ecological, it will be supported by your environment and wider system. A good way to assess whether something is ecological is to ask the following 3 questions. You should get a yes answer to all 3 questions in order for it to be ecological.
Is it good for me?
Is it good for others?
Is it good for the greater good?
T- Timed and toward. You should always set a date by which you want to have achieved your goal. It is important that your date is realistic and that you write it as a set date in the future instead of ?in one year's time? which in one year's time will still be a year away. Instead you would write ?by January 2010. You should always state your goal or resolution as something that you want to move toward instead of something you want to move away from. That means state it in the positive.
Remember that a goal is different to an emotional state. So if your goal is to feel happy, know that you can do this already you just need to learn the techniques to know how. The People Building podcast is filled with NLP hints and tips that can help you to achieve a better state on a consistent basis. You can get it for free, here: http://peoplebuilding.mypodcast.com/rss.xml
The NLP Keys to achievable outcomes are taught as part of our NLP Practitioner training programme. You can get the audio cd's and training manual with all the info to complete your accredited practitioner training here: http://www.peoplebuilding.co.uk/pracmanual.htm
Hypnosis can be a great way to keep your mind focused on your goal, and the more specific to your goal that the hypnosis session is, the more it will appeal to your own unconscious mind. People Building can write, and record a personal hypnosis audio for you or you might find the hypnosis audio that suits your goal here: http://www.peoplebuilding.co.uk/hypnosis-scripts.htm
Assess how your goal is impacting on each area of your life by completing a wheel of life or by completing our Quality of Life questionnaire. We will provide helpful hints and tips to your questionnaire responses as well as offering competitive rates on life coaching to help you stay on track with your new year's resolutions.
With all of these resources available from People Building, you're bound to succeed.
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