339. Create Lasting Love ONE Conversation at a Time with Susan Scott

Feb 21, 2022 | 0 comments

Do you know your Seven Circles? In life, there are seven key areas that deserve our focus and attention: Our spiritual life, our physical health, our personal life, our key relationships, our job, our business, and our finances.

If you’re listening to this show, you probably naturally focus on your job, your business, and your finances. The problem is, those three areas are like rubber balls. If you drop them, they bounce back. The other four areas are more like glass balls. If you drop them, they can be scuffed, cracked, or shattered completely.

In this episode, we focus in on one of those areas, key relationships. The truth is, we can naturally give our professional life so much attention that we don’t show up purposefully in the relationships that matter most to us. Susan Scott is the author of Fierce Conversations, which we’ve highlighted in the past. Her newest book, Fierce Love, takes those principles and applies them to your romantic relationships. 

Among many other things, she teaches us that relationships fail gradually, and then suddenly. This is an important conversation for all of us.

We hope that this helps you begin to have the conversations you’ve been meaning to with the people in your life that matter most. Identify The ONE Thing you can do, such that by doing it, everything else becomes easier or unnecessary. That could be picking up the book, Fierce Love, or having that first conversation. Whatever it is, the important thing is that you act on it and turn this time spent into an investment.

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: the1thing.com/pods.

In this episode, you will learn…

  • [03:20] Why we need to have fierce conversations in our personal lives
  • [10:18] How focusing on yourself can create a stronger relationship
  • [17:11] The importance of setting non-negotiable conditions in your relationships
  • [22:06] How to turn an argument into a conversation
  • [34:51] Why most people are bad at confrontation—and how to get better at it
  • [46:06] The ONE Thing you can do to start having fierce conversations

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