Emotional Bank Account

I've had this topic in my drafts for a number of weeks.  Today seemed to be the right time to write about it as Mr. Bjorkquist and I had a good conversation about it during open training.  

The concept comes from Stephen Covey.  It's about interactions with people and building relationships.  Consider this, if you spend all of your money before you get paid, do you have anything left until then?  Maybe, what if you have an overdraft.  Let's say you have an overdraft and you keep withdrawthing are you now in a negative balance?  Yes we are and this philosphosy can be applied to realtionships.  Everytime we do what we say,  we make a deposit and increase our balance within that relationship.  Help that person with a project, deposit.  We should always be working toward increasing our balance with people.  But what happens when we don't keep our word or lie for example?  We then have made a withdrawal in that relationship.  Same thing applies when we insult someone, don't show empathy etc.  Do we always know when we're making deposits and withdrawals?  No. There are times, especially when we're not empathetic towards that person they perceive our actions as a withdrawal.  While we saw it as a deposit.  I've found that if I apply mindful empathy then I'm likely to make more deposits than withdraws.  

I love this concept and I'm starting to have it present in my mind every day.

Mr. Repay

Student of Silent River Kung Fu