Fierce Conversations at Home

As Valentine’s Day nears, all I can think about is the importance of conducting fierce conversations at home. After you have clearly decided how you wish to lead your own life, you should initiate a fierce conversation with the people you love.

Susan Scott suggests we begin by sorting out our own lives in a fierce conversation with ourselves. We must be able to answer a handful of very big questions: Where am I going? How am I going to get there? Who is going with me? Scott further writes that when having a fierce conversation with someone we love, we must commit to giving that which we wish to receive. If you want someone’s undivided attention, you must give them your undivided attention. If you want the one you love to demonstrate patience and consideration, you must be patient and considerate with them. Constantly remind yourself, “Each fierce conversation begins with me.”

Nowhere are fierce conversations more important than with those we love. Spouses and partners, parents caring for children, and children caring for aging parents, all must engage in fierce conversations. Our relationships depend upon them.

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