Your mindset is key to meaningful relationships. Through your mindset, you can identify exactly what you want without limiting beliefs from past experiences impairing your decisions. Get clear on what you want so that you can communicate openly with others to create relationships that matter to you.
Your Mindset Affects Your Relationships
You may find yourself sometimes thinking about what didn't work in your past friendships, and focusing on what you don't want. Our tendency to pay attention to the negative and overlook the good is a result of evolution. In the past, paying attention to the bad, dangerous, and negative was a matter of life and death. Those who could prevent danger and who focused on the negative around them were more likely to survive. Extensive research suggests that this is one of the ways the brain tries to keep us safe.
While you may no longer need to be on high alert to survive, it can still be a challenge to shift your mindset. Your mindset has a profound effect on your relationships. You may feel the need to be guarded around others, whether you have known them for a short period of time, or they are long-term relationships.
When it comes to cultivating relationships, it is important to aware of these tendencies. Focusing only on what didn’t work in past experiences also impairs you from pinpointing exactly what you find valuable in your relationships. By understanding this pattern, you can make an informed decision about what you want.
Create Meaningful Relationships By Getting Clear On What You Want
Making an informed decision about what you want also requires acknowledging what truly matters to you. How do you know your relationships are thriving if you aren't in tune with what you consider that to be?
It can feel like an intense conversation at first - you might even feel like it’s impossible to have meaningful relationships. By being open, you create the space for others to voice what they want in their relationship with you, too. Whether it’s setting specific boundaries or how you spend time together, we've created a series of mini-journaling prompts for you to dial in exactly what you want:
Journaling Prompts to Identify What Matters To You
Communicate exactly what you want in your relationships through your mindset and by identifying what matters most to you. Meaningful relationships are available to you, regardless of past experiences.
Use our journaling prompts to get clear on the relationship you desire.
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