Use Kaizen to Improve Your Life and Your Relationships Will Improve Too

The couple that is happiest together is the couple that is happiest apart.

What this means is that in order for two people to get on well, they need to also be happy when they're on their own and they need to be comfortable with who they are. While you might like feeling needed by your partner, in terms of your overall happiness as a couple, this is actually destructive. What's more, if you aren't happy on your own, then you will likely bring various hang ups and issues you have as an individual into your relationship which will further jeopardize your happiness.

So in order to be happy as a couple, you must be happy as an individual. And it's possible to use kaizen to do this: kaizen being the slow and steady approach to improving any aspect of your life by making small tweaks over a long duration.

Here we will look at how you can use kaizen to improve yourself, in order to improve your relationships…

How Everything Effects a Relationship

If you aren't happy in other ways, then this is going to impact on your relationships. For instance, if you aren't happy in your career, then you're likely to find that you come home regularly and have no energy and no desire to do anything else.

Of course this doesn't mean you should turn down relationships, but what it does mean is that you should maybe not actively pursue a new relationship until you've dealt with that issue.

Even more important to address is something like an issue with your self-esteem or any insecurity. This is the sort of thing that can lead you to be jealous and possessive in a relationship which can be highly destructive and prevent an otherwise healthy relationship from working as it should.

Smaller things can also have a big impact on a relationship – things like aching pains in your body which can make you cranky or money issues that can prevent you from doing as many nice things together. Situations like these can create upheaval in your relationships.

How Kaizen Can Help

In other words then, your relationship can be negatively affected by countless small things. Kaizen is the process of making lots of small changes in your life in the service of greater overall benefits.

So if you can make lots of small changes, you'll find you can gradually become happier. And once you do that, you will find that every aspect of your relationship improves.

Want better relationships? Try to identify the small changes you might make today that will benefit you and those around you. Start by developing a loving compassionate relationship with yourself, and then follow through and offer love and kindness to everyone.

Until next time...

Cheers!

Lisa

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