The Divorce Coach

• I like to wonder out loud and I like to get an understanding of how other people work - I think we're just complicated systems, a bit like a computer with different software programmes, hardware etc.
  
  This morning when I was out walking the dog, the thought came to me - as they usually do at that time in the morning, do you find thoughts coming to you at the same times every day? Anyway, there I was walking through the fields, all quiet and peaceful and suddenly, out of nowhere came this strange thought
  
  'Do people value their love life in the same way as they look at their business and what would happen if they did?'
  
  
  Now, bearing in mind the work I do, I tend to spend time with people who are short on love. Well they're not actually, it's just the love of a significant other and often that's half the problem - there's so much more to love than one significant person isn't there - you've got friends, children, family, yourself, God/universe/spirit (whatever you like to call it). But most folk really want and need a significant other in their lives and that's for all sorts of reasons, part of which is being human!
  
  I question how we look at that significant other though - if we take the opportunity to view our relationships in the same context as business -
  
  Would you look to your key customer and supplier and treat them without respect - no you wouldn't.
  Would you run your business without goals, marketing, targets, advertising, PR, staff and customers - eh, no I don't think so.
  Would you be able to succeed in business without communicating - ha ha ha
  Would you be able to serve your customers if you didn't know what their needs were
  If there was a gap in your market would you try and fill it?
  Do you allow for feedback from directors and managers?

If you let that rumble around for a wee while then take a minute or an hour and think about your relationship - past, present or future - what do you do that can be improved?  What training do you need to be a better partner?

Jackie Walker

www.thedivorcecoach.co.uk