Productivity in partnerships

One thing that is rarely talked about in personal development is understanding how important it is to accommodate how your partner fits into all of it. Whether it’s a life partner a family partner, or even a business partner (especially like a co-founder) because of how much time you spend together and sometimes even how much your daily lives are intertwined, it’s often not obvious to recognize how each person can impact another. When one person is feeling negative and pessimistic, he will influence the other to be that as well. When someone is feeling down about the day, it will also influence the partner. When one is feeling sick, you better believe that the chance of the other being sick is high as well.

In my own personal pursuit of being better, initially, I had tried to predict all the variables, my own and my partner’s, where I can accommodate so that my systems can still operate within the margins of those expectations, but the more the partnership grows, the more you realize how much of an impossible task that is. The truly productive person who still is willing to co-exist and constantly compromise with a partner learns the power of adaptability and flexibility that is rooted in the intention of forgiveness, to both self and others.

My partner has gotten me sick in the past few days, and it’s always not easy to operate at less than 100 percent, but at the end of the day it’s just another way to train myself to roll with the punches. Onward!