The second major principle in the UNITY acrostic is to develop a healthy interdependence through needing one another. There are healthy and unhealthy ways to relate to individuals. That’s a healthy and growing kind of relationship. And that type of relationship builds team unity, whether it’s at home, in the office, or in the community. Other people provide the whetstone to sharpen our skills, character, and convictions. They become sounding boards (and sometimes sandpaper) to smooth off our rough edges. William Glasser, a major figure in modern psychology, came to a similar conclusion. In his landmark book, Reality Therapy, he started: “We must be involved with other people, one at the very minimum, but hopefully with more than one. At all times in our lives, we must have at least one person who cares for us and whom we care for ourselves. If we do not have this person, we will not be able to fulfill our basic needs…. One characteristics is essential in the other person: He must be in touch with reality himself and able to fulfill his own needs within the world. That’s why for me we well really need one another since I do believe no man is an Island and we cannot decide of our own only.
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