I'll bet that got your attention! It did mine.  

Robin Sharma, author of  "The Leader Who Had No Title", lists his 60 tips in his blog at http://www.robinsharma.com/blog/12/ 60-tips-for-a-stunningly-great-life/ if you want to peruse them for yourself.

As I read them through I found myself checking them off or mentally drawing a line through them, depending on whether I agreed or not with the author.. The list served a wonderful positive purpose: it got me thinking about just how great my life actually is right now. So many times I look into the future and think about 

what I could, or worse, should do, to create a better life.  

Just prior to reading this list I had received an email from a client who asked me in her note whether I was having an awesome day. I thought about

the question momentarily, and then replied "Yes, actually I am!"  I even smiled as I responded on my blackberry. Her very use of the word

""awesome" put me in such a positive place.

It continues to amaze me that the words we use to communicate can have such an affect on those around us. As for a "stunningly" great life, 

now I might just have to add a few things to my list to get me to that level.

In her book "Life is a verb" Patti Digh quotes Anais Nin:  "We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are."  

Isn't that the truth.  We grow up with our perspective and often just assume that others view life the same way too. We often gravitate towards ppeople who see things the way we do too.  But sometimes we find ourselves in the company of someone who just doesn't see things in the same way and we wonder why they are so weird. 

For example, one colleague may be very different on your  team than the rest of your colleagues. As one workshop participant commented to me the other day, "we're both speaking English but sometimes I just don't understand her."  Once they learned the differences of how the four temperaments  communicate, they began to understand where some of the gaps were in their relationship on the team. 

Only then could they begin to bridge the gap between their two perspectives and perhaps even appreciate one another a little more.  Once again,  I quoted Patti Digh: "Experiencing the world of others doesn't imply agreement or adoption of their way of being in the world, but it does require openness."

Another participant commented that she thought a group of their colleagues were being sarcastic and she had never quite figured out why.  She learned that day that this small group shared the same temperament and  what she thought was sarcastic was really just their dry wit .  They all laughed together. And so a bridge was built that day.