Kindle Edition Download to your Nook (eBook) Download from Apple iTunes (eBook) Download from Smashwords (eBook) Amazon 21 Steps to Better Relationships Category:  Self-Help Publisher: Michael Thomas Sunnarborg ISBN-10:  0985450312 Type: Non-Fiction Pages: 76 Copyright: August 1, 2012 ISBN-13: 9780985450311 21 steps designed to help you find better balance with others--regardless of who they are. Are you seeking more balance in your relationships? Are there aspects of your relationships you'd like to change and don't know where to start? Join speaker and author Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, Ambassador of Goodwill, as he guides you through 21 steps designed to help you find better balance with others--regardless of who they are. Excerpt Relationships are the foundation of our personal growth and expansion in this lifetime. We are naturally wired to connect and collaborate with others--those with the same energy source contained within ourselves--the collective human life force. Regardless of whether the relationship is with a family member, significant other, co-worker, friend, or acquaintance, all of our relationships are extremely powerful and assist us in creating our life stories. Balanced relationships contain core essential elements including respect, appreciation, and freedom. In a balanced relationship, each person is responsible for his or her own behavior. Balanced relationships are equitable; both people contribute equally. Lack of balance in a relationship can show up as criticism, control, or neglect. Unhealthy relationships not only erode the mind and body, they create barriers and slow our spiritual growth. In this book, I will lead you through 21 steps based on a larger three-stage balance process of awareness, alignment, and activation, designed to gently shift your perspective, remove barriers, and help you find better balance in your relationships. Through this process you will have the opportunity to establish new thoughts and perspectives that will help bring more balance and harmony to your connections with others. There are three chapters in the book, each focusing on one of the three stages. Each chapter leads you through seven steps included in the balance process. At the end of each chapter is an exercise to help reinforce that stage of development. Each of the 21 steps has a theme. At the end of each theme are questions for a Balance Plan and a Call to Action. You might find it useful to journal about the questions or simply mull them over during your day. They can also serve as a useful meditation focus; simply bring the questions into your mind during your regular meditation practice and notice the thoughts that float up in response. The Call to Action is a to-do activity designed to help you apply the lessons from each step. Putting theory into practice helps integrate the concepts into your experience.

Quick Read, Major Impact
It doesn't matter if you're 16 or 60 . . . from time to time, you need relationship advice. Now you can get it from a wise and knowledgeable source in a pithy book that offers to-the-point wisdom and gentle guidance. My relationships have benefited from the information Michael Thomas Sunnarborg offers in "21 Steps to Better Relationships;" I'll bet yours will, too. This book is going on my "gift book" list because it's so helpful. My friends will love it.

Buy One for Yourself and One for a Friend
Life really is all about relationships, yet they can be so confusing at times. Michael dives right in 21 Steps to Better Relationships and asks easy yet compelling questions, and provides you with thought provoking stories and that will gently guide you onto the path of a fuller and more purposeful life. Get this book today and see what is necessary for you to find better balance and more happiness in your relationships and home and work. And get one for a friend while you're at it. After all, life is about building relationships!

Relationships and Checklists
Michael Sunnaborg has written a great, targeted book on the need to create balance in our lives and relationships. It takes a pragmatic, checklist approach. Great for the reader and wonderful for the workplace as well.