Good communication skills is a foundation of maintaining strong and healthy personal relationships. No matter how much you earn, how much your boss compliments you for possessing some incredibly amazing skills or your colleagues praise you for always helpful and supportive, unless you have happy and strong emotional bond with the people who are worthy in your life, you can’t be calm and content with whatever you have achieved professionally. No doubt, a personal relationship outside of the workplace is necessary for one’s emotional well being and mental peace. So, it becomes a necessity to develop and nurture them with love, care and affection with a pinch of understanding and being there in difficult times.
Whether you are spending quality time with your life partner, relatives, mother-in-law or hanging out with bestie or close friends without whom your life is incomplete, you need to follow few mannerism which will eventually bring you closer to them.
• Keep a gentle smile on your face. Show them you are happy for getting their significant time out of day to day busy life.
• It is not necessary that you always agree with the viewpoints of your partner, friends or anyone. Don’t be diplomatic, rude, sarcastic and offensive with other people. Use polite words for speaking whatever you don’t like in them.
• There is a proverb in English- “A lone gram can’t bust the oven ( akela chana bhaad nhi phod sakta). Each and every person needs someone in long run of life. If someone is asking for your help..never say no if you can because helping someone in need is the best thing you can do for the people you love and admire.
• Be a good listener. Keep your mobile phone aside as gadgets are a big cause of distraction these days. They keep you away from the one who is sitting beside you as your mind is already occupied in newsfeeds and posts.
• Don’t interrupt in between. Let the person say what is in her heart or mind, how he sees things, what is troubling him/her etc. Let them finish first then share your views and opinions.
• For having a good emotional relationship on a personal level with the people you care, respect is a must. Try to accept the differences with an open heart and embrace the similarities.
• Appreciate more often. Praise them with good words and give credits whenever they offer you helping hands, give unconditional support and become your backbone during hard times.
• Love is not only about telling them on a regular basis that you love them, it must be shown in your actions that how much you cherish them in your life. This simple mantra will make your personal relationship stronger.
• Don’t bind the people you love so much beneath your expectations that they try to run away from you in spite of the fact how much important you are for them.
• One most important component to ensure happy term with others is to forgive them for their mistakes. No one is matured and sometimes “mistakes happen by mistakes”. So, let go of the past.
Follow these simple gestures whenever you get chance to communicate with someone. Believe it or not, your special people who already love you will fall more in love with you and adore you for your kindness, and behavior.