Use any opportunity for growh, even if the progress is slightest possible

For most people happiness is either anticipation of good future or deliverance from bad past, and only for a few happiness is a sense of full responsibility for the present.

We have considered a lot of recommendations on rekindling relationships but most of them work in long-term perspective. What can you do today to make your relationship with your partner better?

According to the well-known financial consultant, writer and businessman, Bodo Schaefer, we’ve got only 72 hours to begin implementing our ideas, if we do not want these ideas to have been sunk into oblivion. In other words, if you don’t set about taking an appropriate action within the next 72 hours then with the probability of 99.9% you will never start moving towards your goal. So never put off till today what you can do right now!

Now, here are a few recommendations for the possible actions to be taken by you right now not losing any moment:

1. Make a compliment to your partner. The need to be highly valued and appreciated greatly attracts us to those who pay us compliments in the areas meaningful to us. You may get a particularly strong effect when you praise your partner in front of other people.

2. Find something at which you will be able to laugh together. Laughter helps us to cope with stress and woes of our rigorous daily routine. Sense of humor is one of the main tools to overcome problems in relationships.

3. Invite your partner to spend time together. You may do it either at home or outside, actively or relaxed, merrily or intellectually. No matter how you spend your time, if you are doing something together you breathe new life into your relationship.

4. Smile more often. A very simple way to make interaction with your partner more positive is to smile more. Starting from now try to start every dialogue with him/her from a smile.

5. Touch your partner. For human beings physical contact is extremely important. If you touch you partner more than 10 times a day it makes your relationship healthier.

6. Tell your partner what’s worrying you. If you hide inside the things that disturb you then your anger and frustration may greatly affect the relationship. Instead, you should always tell your partner about these feelings but without any notes of blame.

7. Make the relationship rescue schedule with exact actions and deadlines. If you are able to engage your partner in mutual work on relationship this schedule may be even produced in form of a contract signed by both parties indicating their roles and setting check points, which will help to estimate how you approach your goals.

8. Write a list of the things that you like in your partner. Thus, you can recover many of the feelings that you had in the initial stages of your relationship. You again will pay attention to exactly those qualities of your partner that you admired before rather than those that cause your irritation. There are no ideal people and you have to learn to see a half-full glass rather a half-empty one.

9. Invent a tradition for your family. This thing is more typical for one families than the other. Do not hesitate to think up those actions that will help you to unite with your partner and that you can repeat regularly. When you are ready take the opportunity to inform him/her about your idea. Suggest your partner to introduce a new tradition in your relationship. Sometimes a tradition plays a crucial role in saving relationship since it helps people to start an open communication even in the most difficult situations.

10. Do what your partner has been waiting you to do for a long time. Only you two know about it and nobody else. Is may be something that your partner has been asking you to do for a long time but you haven’t managed to realize it due to some stupid reasons like laziness or fear to change the course of your habitual thoughts and actions. Maybe it's high time to make an effort and do something you've never done before, isn’t it?

If you apply at least some of these recommendations within the next 72 hours I am sure you’ll start feeling the positive changes in the psychological atmosphere of your family. You will get a portion of enthusiasm and drive, which will inspire you for the new accomplishments. But sooner or later you will again be affected by laziness, to overcome which you need to write a long-term plan. I suggest that you start with weekly plan for the next year where you’ll reflect the things you are going to do every week in order to improve your relationship.