Summary: Learn about the most precious, kind, and best listening animal in the personality kingdom, The Golden Retriever. And by the way, if you haven’t left a review yet in iTunes, don’t be shy, it’s easy to do and it really lets me know you’re listening (and other’s too). Relational strengths: Warm & Relational Loyal Enjoys Routine Peace-Maker Sensitive Feelings Strengths out of balance: Attract the hurting Missed opportunities Stays in a rut Sacrifice own feelings for harmony Easily hurt or holds a grudge Communication style: Indirect Two-way Great listener Weakness in communicating: Uses too many words or provides too many details Relational needs: Emotional security Agreeable Environment Relational balance: Learn to say "NO" … establish emotional boundaries Learn to confront when own feelings are hurt IF YOUR MARRIAGE NEEDS HELP PLEASE CALL US AT 800-975-8748 TO HEAR HOW THE SMALLEY INTENSIVE PROGRAM CAN HELP YOU TODAY! FEATURED RESOURCE BUY NOW Transcript: [0:00:00] Announcer: Coming to you from the heart of Texas where he met his one and only true love. Proving that this guy really does know how to love well because there’s no way he won her over with his looks. Therefore, he must be the relationship genius of our generation. Get ready for the best advice you will ever hear on how to keep your relationship thriving. Welcome to the Smalley podcast with your host Michael Smalley. Michael: Have you ever made a mistake and you just really messed up and you feel bad? Well you really didn’t feel bad. You feel stupid. It’s one of those kind of mistakes where you just feel stupid. I do that a lot. Because of my most recent mistake especially for this show, I kinda gotten nostalgic a little bit because you sort of started doing life and you start growing up and you think you’ve overcome stuff and then you do something stupid and you realize I haven't gotten quite as far as I needed to. Maybe I’m not as smart or more mature as maybe I thought I’d gotten now that I’m really in my 40’s. Well it just made me sad this last mistake and honestly I got a little nostalgic and that got me digging around the old soundboard where I found a bunch of 80’s television show jingles and I got this one. Tell me this doesn’t bring back good memories. Here it comes. I love this show. Curly blonde hair, Connie Sellecca, the greatest American hero. I needed a pick me up I’m not gonna lie. I definitely needed a pick me up because I was embarrassed because my very last personality episode… It is so funny when you’re an ADHD guy like me, it is so funny how you mess stuff up quickly and you don’t even realize it until comments started pouring in from the website. People were very nice, very kind. They didn’t necessarily hurt my feelings but it did embarrass me because as you know if you’ve been listening to the show, on episode 52 of the second show in the personality series, I titled it the social director and I went off on social director which of course was not the right name to go with. Because on the first show of the personality series, I was sticking with the old lion, otter, golden retriever and beaver of the animal kingdom and it was supposed to be the animal kingdom for the entire series but no. I blew it. I’m not afraid to admit mistakes. If you’ve listened to this show, it’s all about being authentic and genuine and honest and not worried about being perfect and the good news is I really don’t ever have to worry about not being perfect coz I’m so imperfect. Before I get into the third show on this personality series, maybe I was doing that unconsciously for all of you the listeners. That’s the direction I wanna take this one in because honestly the fact that I messed up the title of the otter and changed it to the social director… I don’t have to get into the long story. It’s the exact same test, exact same personality styles. This is the four. We have it in the animal kingdom like my dad and John Trent did.
