10 Lessons on living your best life from my trip to Colorado

If you move through life at the pace of everyone else, you will experience life like everyone else. If you experience life like everybody else, you should expect to get the same results as everyone else.

So, if your goal is to get better results than everyone else, you must experience life differently.

Here are some examples of the fruits of living differently from a recent trip to Colorado.

jonathan couserJuly 24, 2024behaviors, best practices, learning, relationships

It isn’t about the helmet it’s about the journey to get your name on the helmet

healthy relationshipsjonathan couserMarch 20, 2024relationships

Things I learned about personal boundaries from cattle

Boundaries are helpful for healthy relationships and safe cattle farming. Be sure to establish, communicate, and maintain your boundaries, so they achieve their intended objective. Remember, if your boundaries are too strong, you will eventually keep everyone out. The goal of boundaries isn’t to keep people out; it is to maintain health and mutually beneficial relationships. #personalboundaries #healthrelationships #farmlife #personalleadership

healthy relationshipsjonathan couserFebruary 19, 2024relationships, health, communication, family, parenting

What you can learn from the most recent time I failed at being non-judgmental.

healthy relationshipsjonathan couserJanuary 17, 2024genuine relationships, relationships, communication

Dating as a series of healthy experiments not as wins and loses

In a perfect world, you wouldn’t need to run any kind of experiments. It would be a world without regret. You would already know everything necessary to have an amazing lasting relationship. But the world isn’t perfect. Intentional experiments are how you learn to thrive in romantic relationships while enjoying the journey. #relationships #datingexperiments #healthyrelationships

healthy relationshipsjonathan couserNovember 14, 2023relationships, genuine relationships, parenting, learning, family

Why we don’t walk around our house with earbuds in, and why you shouldn’t either.

We all choose to mute things. How might choosing to mute the outside world be harming your relationships and why you should care about it. #healthyrelationships #parenting #communication #effectiveliving

Addressing difficult subjects in your relationships

The goal of sharing truth or engaging in conflict with someone in your personal community should be to improve the relationship and encourage the other person to consider if a change is best for them and your relationship.

This type of honest dialogue, when done appropriately, creates deep connection. Deep connection creates long term mutually beneficial relationships capable of withstanding difficulty.

Follow this model to help you improve the quality of your interactions over subjects that might cause conflict.

Making more GENUINE introductions

jonathan couserJuly 14, 2023genuine relationships, relationships, communication

Set boundaries to help others achieve their best

Setting healthy boundaries leads to better outcomes. Boundaries are required for you to be sustainably generous and a great leader. Great news is you control your ability to create boundaries. #boundaries #mentoring #leading #successful #generosity

10 Things I have learned from being married that you can apply to any important relationship.

Effective relationship principles are good in all kinds of relationships. Marriage principles can apply at work. And sometimes work principles help in marriages. #communication #relationships #teamwork

jonathan couserJune 13, 2023marriage, communication, relationships, genuine relationships, teams, generosity, engagementComment

Worry less; be more consistent instead

We spend touch effort and time worry about making mistakes and not enough effort becoming consistent in our actions. Becoming consistent is better than worrying.

jonathan couserMay 31, 2023relationships, communication, personal brand, goals

7 Concepts to Grow Your Capacity for Empathy (infographic)

Increase your ability to connect with others by growing your capabilities around demonstrating empathy. #leadership #communication #empathy #relationships #successfulteams

jonathan couserMay 16, 2023communication, leadership, relationships, genuine relationships

My First Chat GPT Experiment: What can we learn about relationships from AI

What does AI have to share about how it would interpret the elements of healthy relationships.

healthy relationshipsjonathan couserApril 17, 2023relationships, ai, generosity, genuine relationships

10 things I tell my kids that can help you be more effective today

Here are 10 things I say to my kids that anyone can apply to their life to achieve more success and better outcomes.

jonathan couserMarch 21, 2023top ten, parenting, relationships, stra, leadership

Are you preparing to win or to be a not loser?

Being a winner instead of a not loser; isn't just a play on words. There is a high difference between living your life to win and living your life trying not to lose. Four things are highlighted here. #lifehacks #success #habits #winningatlife

jonathan couserMarch 6, 2023relationships, best practices, purpose, strategy

5 Life Lessons Learned by Making Chili

There are a few important principles for living your best life that you can learn from making chili. Check them out here and get a recipe for an award winning chili. #lifelessons #leadershipprinciples #bestlife #lessonslearned #cooking

jonathan couserFebruary 21, 2023relationships, career, career advice, communication, leadership

Jonathan, I know him too, how did he treat you?

The world is more interconnected than you know. The people you know, know people. And they just might figure out they both know you. And when they do. They will talk. For example when you are applying for a job, there is a good chance research will be done about you and not just work stuff. Trust me I get those calls about people I know often.

Please do everything you can to give them good things to talk about.

You can accomplish that by treating all people well. Do this first because it is the right thing to do but secondly because it is wise to leave a good impression. You never know who that person knows and in what future context you might cross paths with someone who knows you or knows about you. Wouldn’t it be nice to know that whatever they know is probably pretty good?

Here is an approach to building more GENUINE relationships. You can do these things to leave people feeling good about interacting with you.

jonathan couserFebruary 4, 2023relationships, career advice, career, communication

Find the joy than choose it.

There is joy all around you, even when things aren’t going your way. Choosing to see it is a mindset you control. I encourage you to look for and find joy in whatever you experience today. It actually does make bad situations more tolerable, plus joy is contagious. Here are three examples from my own experience.

jonathan couserJanuary 24, 2023best practices, behaviors, relationships, personal brand

10 Lessons in Pictures (2022)

2022 was a year to practice being courageous. Here is what I learned from that pursuit. #lifeprinciples #communicating #relationships #learning #leadership

jonathan couserDecember 12, 2022best practices, communication, relationships, leadership, guiding principles