New Year's Revolution: Give Compliments! Freely!

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Several years ago, Linda and I were helping a client of mine build her family’s straw bale home in Grand Junction, Colorado. When I arrived for the first time, my client remarked to me in private on how beautiful Linda was. She absolutely glowed with admiration. She also phrased it as if it were a personal triumph for me to have “snagged” such a beautiful woman. (She didn’t use those words. That’s my own translation.)

Her compliments about me and Linda changed my life, almost overnight. Hard to imagine, isn’t it?

How did it change my life?

It dramatically shifted the way I looked at and thought about Linda. Sure, I thought she was attractive. But I don’t think I’d ever appreciated just how beautiful she was and what a prize I had. I think I was too busy focusing on her faults — a problem of mine since I started dating. (But that’s another issue.)

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