After many years in strategic leadership roles across global institutions—spanning project management, management sciences, and complex systems—I chose early retirement from corporate life to follow a more soul-guided path. I now walk the path of my highest purpose. I am also a mother of two daughters, a widow, and a friendly presence to everyone I meet. I bring my whole self into everything I do. My writing is spiritually inspired, shaped by a lifelong devotion to purposeful service and a journey of conscious, lived experience.
From my eBook: Upgrading Your Life by Joycelyn Marshall
Good relating is not only about standing on a common ground but also respecting the different outlook and trying to understand each other from their outlook and not from yours.
From the eBook: Upgrading Your Life by Joycelyn Marshall
Sometimes in trying to compromise a middle ground can be found. In other times, it can only be one extreme or the other as there may not be any common ground in the two approaches. In cases like the latter, see things from both sides of the disagreement for we are all connected in one way or the other and our actions have consequences both to ourselves and others. If needed, be spiritually mature to let go of your own approach to let the approach on the higher ground prevail.
(The approach on the higher ground would take into consideration what’s best for all.)
From the eBook: Self-Mastery/True Self-Empowerment by Joycelyn Marshall
Don’t force anything or anyone to fit your schedule. They too have to go at their pace. If it is necessary then negotiate with love and understanding of your and their situation. We don’t have to be “right”. We just have to do what’s best for us to move smoothly along our journey and sometimes it means compromising to get a good relationship with others which will make us happy or provide some means of fulfillment. If you feel the need to be “right” in any sort of negotiations instead of trying to reach the best solution for all parties involved (which includes you), then turn your love on yourself and take time to reflect on what needs to be addressed.
Joycelyn Marshall 