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Whether they're moving to a new area for work-related reasons, accommodating a growing family, or resettling due to financial considerations, most people buying or selling real estate are doing so while experiencing major life transitions. Agents and brokers, therefore, need to help their clients do more than just complete a transaction if they want to remain competitive. The Consultative Real Estate Agent shows readers how they can boost their profits by developing strong relationships and focusing on the real needs of their clients. The book shows readers how they can: * build better rapport (and lose fewer clients) * get more referrals (and spend less on marketing) * close more sales by better understanding clients' wants and needs Great real estate agents are one part entrepreneur, one part negotiator, one part problem-solver, and one part counselor. The Consultative Real Estate Agent shows agents how to deepen their client relationships and make more money doing it.
Almost every woman has uttered, "He just doesn't get it!" in frustration when her partner drives her crazy -- or to tears. Now this dramatically different relationship guide reveals the hidden reasons why. He Just Doesn't Get It! offers simple solutions to the problems women have with the infuriating, confusing, difficult -- and absolutely wonderful -- guys they love, including: "Why are men so selfish?" "How can they be so oblivious?" "Are men intimacy-impaired?" "Will he ever grow up?" "Will he ever understand me and love me in the way I long to be loved?" Nationally known relationship counselor Ellen Sue Stern has worked with thousands of women who have asked the exact same questions about their boyfriends or husbands -- regardless of their age, background, or length of time in a relationship. Why is it that men don't make the same effort women do to please their mate, improve intimacy, or create a more satisfying union? Focusing on fifteen of the most common relationship problems, Ellen Sue Stern supplies the answers -- and the unseen motivations underlying men's behavior -- as if she's been there herself (she has!). She will astonish you with her on-target descriptions of how you react to his behavior -- and how you unwittingly may be making things worse. With specific advice on what to do when he takes you for granted, accuses you of acting like his mother, or proclaims, "I need more space," she shows you how to turn things around immediately, even if "He just doesn't get it!" With counsel that's exciting, practical, and best of all, effective, Ellen Sue Stern gives you the power to dramatically improve your relationship -- and feel better about yourself while you're at it.
This volume presents a highly innovative approach to legal practice grounded in human development and social interaction theories. Relationship-Centered Lawyering fulfills the deep and widespread yearning expressed by many practitioners to recapture past idealized images of the citizen lawyer. This groundbreaking book also responds to the dramatic changes within the legal profession within the past twenty years as well as new challenges for lawyers and judges created by our increasingly global society. The quest for a restored public image and a fulfilling professional life is reflected in the convergence of a number of movements that have swept across a wide swath of the legal profession including practitioners, judges, and legal scholars/educators. Such movements include Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Preventive Law, Restorative Justice, Transformative Mediation, and Humanizing Legal Education. In addition, recent reports on the state of the legal profession and legal education have issued recommendations for reform. The forward-looking approach presented in this volume directly responds to the call for a revitalized understanding of professionalism leading to a renewed sense of public trust, and enhanced professional training for the practice of law in the twenty-first century. A unique feature of this framework is its empirically tested scientific base. Relationship-centered lawyering is grounded in well-accepted principles and theories principally drawn from the mental health fields of social work and psychology. The relationship-centered approach calls upon lawyers to gain competency in three distinct areas: (1) contextualized understandings of human development; (2) just and effective legal process; and (3) affective and interpersonal competence.
DON’T KISS DATING GOODBYE! There is a much better way! Dr. Myles Munroe is an internationally acclaimed teacher and conference speaker with several best-selling books to his credit. In Waiting and Dating, Dr. Munroe offers a balanced, biblical view for every believer who wants a prosperous and fulfilling marriage relationship. He offers some of the best advice you will ever find on the subject of finding the one with whom you will spend the rest of your life. In Waiting and Dating, you will learn: • The importance of sharing your faith in God. • The need for personal wholeness. • The importance of true friendship in a relationship. • The myths of finding the right person. • How to discern the right mate. • Much, much more! The principles in this book will guide you through what for some is the most confusing time of your life. For anyone looking for that special someone with whom to share their life, this book is essential, fun, and full of hope!
Counseling is about the bond between client and counselor. That's the premise behind THE HEART OF COUNSELING: A GUIDE TO DEVELOPING THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIPS. By walking you through thirteen concrete and detailed therapeutic relationship skills, Cochran and Cochran give you the best counseling textbook of its kind on the market. It's easy to understand and loaded with study tools, making it the textbook that prepares you for both career and classroom at the same time.
Tucked within this volume are heartlines, woven equally of two types of tough yet tender threads: tales and thoughts about loving and longing. The weave creates soul stories about pivotal relationships: one's chum, first love, outlaw, and the intimate partner. The blend of stories and ideas communicates what happens "on the ground" and in the time of daily life. What belongs together is bound together: experience-reflection, meaning-action, smiles and tears. These relationships concern us all. Within them, we experience life's most important, validating, and memorable "moments." The chum is one's first best friend. She or he calls me to become-- not just a child, a family member, or a follower of the gang-- but a unique person. We tame one another. Thus our friendship promotes us to become real, and affords us an abiding presence. Now I will never be alone, but always vulnerable to loneliness. Significantly, the chum bond is unencumbered with the issues of sexuality. My first love draws out the burgeoning man or woman in me. Within the orbit of our "harmonious us," we share a plethora of "firsts" and negotiate the full spectrum of absolutes: the One, the Good, the True, the Beautiful, the Magic, and the Tragic. The person of the person and not sex matters most. It is the outlaw who stirs my passion and rouses the broad and raw dimensions of my sexuality. He is the significant stranger who comes from a world different from my normal, habitual context. She introduces new ways of seeing and comprehending the social world." My outlaw challenges my meaning-system of values, morals and customary practices. With vows or promises, I commit to my intimate partner. He is my constant companion; she is the one I want to grow old with.These relationships index our growth beyond pure biological unfolding; they reveal that my most significant development happens because the "Other," by facing and appealing to me for my response, solicits and provokes growth. Fastened thus to life'
In the past twenty years or so, research on support processes in relationships has emerged as a distinct development in the field. Researchers have drawn from studies in the fields of communication, social support, and intimate relationships to conduct research examining support processes in relationships on micro and macro levels. Theoretical models of support processes in intimate relationships have been developed and increasingly sophisticated methodologies and data analytic techniques are being used to accumulate considerable and convincing evidence of the importance and complexity of support processes in intimate relationships. This edited book offers a broad yet coherent view of the field, showcasing novel, state-of-the-art research and theory on support processes in intimate relationships. Cutting-edge scholarly work is compiled in one accessible volume, which is designed to provoke and guide new research on social support. The book is divided into five sections designed to reflect emerging themes in the literature on support processes and intimate relationships. "Getting What One Wants: Perceived Support in Intimate Relationships" highlights the importance of offering support that is consistent with the needs of the recipient. "Providing What Partners Need: Interpersonal Aspects of Support" focuses on the importance of empathic understanding, validation of support seekers' needs, attachment styles, and the emotional context for effective support provision. "Complexities of Support Processes in Individual and Couple Well Being" highlights the complex nature of support, presenting research on the effects of partner support on coping with stress, differential responses to daily support, and the importance of providing support for positive events. "Support in the Context of Health-related Problems and Behaviors" is comprised of chapters describing the effects of support on health, illness, and injury. Finally, "Culture and Gender" presents research that explores the role of gender and culture in support processes in couples.
Are you making a living? Or as Joe Dominguez puts it, are you making a dying? Dominguez was a Wall Street analyst who walked away from a high-powered financial career in 1969, retiring at age 30. Afterward he lived comfortably on about $7,000 per year, while donating a small fortune to various charities. Transforming Your Relationship with Money is his life's work- a revolutionary guide that will help you find peace with the concept of money, stop consuming things you don't really need, and start contributing to the goals and ideals you believe in. Joe Dominguez achieved financial independence through a path of inquiry that led him to question the very nature of our relationship with money. On this live audio seminar, he illuminates the equation between money and our most precious resource-our life energy-so that a powerful new definition of money emerges. In nine simple steps he teaches you how to consciously track, evaluate, and direct the flow of money-without compromising your principles or most cherished dreams.
Are you madly in love or driven mad by it? Happily single or looking for a partner? Living together, married with kids, or dumped and desperate? Whatever the state of your love life, Hot Relationships has all the answers to your dating and relating dilemmas. Funny, practical, and refreshingly realistic, it's packed with advice on everything from flirting and flings to monogamy and marriage. There are hot tips on getting over an ex, where to meet a partner, how to spot the losers, and how to breeze through that first date, as well as hints on fixing the fights, surviving jealousy and infidelity, and breaking bad love habits. A must-have manual for singles, couples, men, and women, Hot Relationships shows you how to have one-and how to keep it that way.Inside you'll learn:How to get from bonking-each-other-senseless to couplesville (without losing the urge)How to tame the green-eyed monster and what to do if your partner cheats (or you're tempted to)What to do with loony libidos and lousy lovers, or if you're both too zonked to bonk
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