Ep. 112 - Marriage Is Not a Competition

Do you treat your arguments like a competition? You need to be right and your spouse has to be wrong? Think about this. If you feel the intimacy may be eroding in your marriage, it may be due to the years of beating each other in one argument or another. Treating your spouse like a competitor as opposed to the team member they are supposed to be. 

It’s time to get back on the same page as husband and wife. Time to treat each other as the valuable team member they are. You can accomplish so much more in life and business when you’re in full support of each other as opposed to competing against them.

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Key Takeaways:

• Disagreements tend to be a right/wrong, win/lose

• Where does this come from?

• Our parents, school, sports, business, etc. 

• Marriage is a team sport but we’re on the same team not opposing

• Different skills working together makes the team win

• Different skills/thoughts in business make for better decisions

• Homogeneous thinking is detrimental to any organization

• How do we not make it a competition?

  • We are on the same team

  • Set vision

  • Lay down your ego and the need to be right or win

  • Your spouse will love you more when you’re not always trying to beat her/him