Term Paper Blog Entry #3

I love the book I chose, "Everybody Wins" by Gary Chapman. I really have learned a lot from this book. It is a short book only around a hundred pages, so I have read all of the book. This book has showed me to be patient when I am having a disagreement with someone or just talking about something important with someone. I never really realized this but in the past when I would be talking with someone I was not truly listening to them. I would be thinking more about how I was going to respond more than taking in what the other person was saying and a lot of times I would even interupt them. The other night my parents and I were having a serious talk about the new baby that is coming into my life. My dad was telling me some changes that I need to make and things like that. I really listened to him took everything in that he was saying. I showed him respect in the sense that I repeated in a broad sense the topics he and my mom brought up, so they knew I was listening. My progress is actually going faster than I expected. It seems that I am sincerely using these tools from this book in my life. I believe that ever since I found out that I am going to be a dad I look at things in my life different anyway. I have not had any setbacks yet. I am sure I will though somewhere in this process because that happens. The important thing is though that I catch the setback when it happens and grow from it. Even though I am picking some of the things in this book and using them in my life a little faster than I thought, it doesn't seem really harder or easier than I expected.