½ full? ½ empty? – refillable!

Are you a glass half full or half empty person? I would say it doesn’t matter. What matters is that the glass is refillable! Some of us are ‘eternal optimist’ some of us are ‘more realistic’. We need both. Some need to shoot for the stars so we end up in the tree tops because someone else planned and executed accordingly. 

Dreaming big can truly serve us. When we dare to open the aperture and see what’s there, just out of sight when we just look straight ahead, focusing solely on the here and now. 

Not only glasses are refillable. Many situations are too. There are times that, despite our best efforts, we don’t nail it in our communication. Maybe our emotions got the best of us. Maybe we got distracted and left our communication partner hanging. Maybe we got derailed for some other reason. Maybe we are the ones to come to great responses in the shower, long after the conversation is over. The best part is that we can return to the conversation, pick it back up, ask for another opportunity to get it right. 

It can sounds something like ‘I messed up and would like to try again’ or ‘I could hear what you were saying later that evening, can I share what I heard?’ or ‘I’m sorry I got so heated, can we circle back now that I have a cooler head?’

What’s your way of circling back and refill the relationship?