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Crappy Relationship ROI? Stop Getting Ripped Off!

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You changed for somebody else – you invested all that effort. Then they stormed out and you’re left with an “empty” version of yourself. You shoved your square peg through a round hole and come out damaged and unrecognizable.

Your return on investment (ROI) sucks!

Now begins the long-ass journey back to… yourself. This stage of the process has you starting at minus zero. Because the investment you made wasn’t actually for you – it was for someone else. And you got left behind with nothing to show for all of your hard work.

When you change for someone else, they’re the one that leaves with all of your changes. It’s like shopping for new clothes that you never get to wear. And when you get dumped you don’t even get your clothes back, you end up in tattered rags.

Change is good, but who keeps the ROI? Stop getting ripped off. Invest in yourself. Invest in your own growth, confidence and success.

Customer service – Not just for customers anymore

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Customer service is one of the new frontiers for intimate relationships, as well as family and friends. Customer service isn’t just for customers and social media – it’s for your marriage, your business partners, your employees, your vendors, your co-workers, your family and friends. Customer service is YOU being nice to the cashier who’s having a bad day. It’s for ALL of your relationships.

I like what Tony Robbins has to say about relationships. It’s also the best type of customer service – giving, not taking.

“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.” – Anthony Robbins

Smart dating tip – Don’t drink contaminated water

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Broach the taboo topics, ask – and answer – embarrassing questions and state your not-so-obvious flaws. Build something of quality. Do the heavy-lifting from the outset. Filter out the flakes, putzes, assholes, haters and control freaks right up front.

In other words, don’t drink contaminated water; filter out the crap.

My marriage failed because I didn’t treat my wife as well as I treated my customers

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Customer service is for your spouse, too!

I take full responsibility for the shitty way I treated my wife, regardless of how she treated me. I definitely would have never reacted to my customers the way I yelled and screamed at my wife.

I was always much more careful in how I reacted toward my customers, but when I got home I didn’t have to be nice. And that was the problem, I never treated my wife with the same respectful consequence-oriented customer service that I showed my clients.

I would never would have been such an asshole to my customers. But I certainly was one toward my wife.

Good customer service = good relationship.

Crappy customer service = crappy relationship.

Can My Girlfriend Trust Me?

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I’m a pretty good kisser. But when I’m yelling and screaming at my girlfriend she probably forgets all that. How I “react” is my life. She doesn’t know if she can really “trust” me until she sees how I react under pressure, when I’m angry. Then the story she tells her girlfriends is complete: he’s a good kisser, but, shit, what’s with this “reacting with anger” bullshit?!?

How I “react” IS my life!