Forgot what it was like to be home....

 I truly forgot how good home was until I arrived home on Tuesday night. I am from West Palm Beach, Florida, but my family and I were going to The Florida Keys for Thanksgiving. Wednesday morning we left straight for  The Keys, and boy did I forget how beautiful it is down there. Waking up to the fresh sea air while overlooking the bay; Then spending the entire day in the boat, gazing at the crystal blue ocean while listening to Modern English and the Police while soaking in Vitamin D was truly nothing short of living it up in paradise. I was right where I wanted to be. I had all three things I've been missing since I've been in Texas. Family, Ocean, and quality time spent with the two. When you come home from college you really do forget how good you have it. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE college, and have never been happier, but it is nice to come home to familiarity. Dorothy wasn't lying when she said "There's no place like home."

Conflict Resolution

Ok, so we have all been rudely confronted before, be it from a parent, a boy friend, a girl friend, a friend, a sister, a brother.....you get the point. We have all had to deal with a conflict before and because we are so different, we all handle our conflicts in our own unique different ways. I am in Emerging Leaders and today's leadership lesson was on conflict resolution. We were taught the many different to handle conflict, I find them valuable and would like to share them all with you.( I do not take these styles as my work, I received a handout from the speaker)

They include:

-Forcing: attempt to coerce people into doing or thinking something.

-Confronting: believe in openly communicating to surface any unwarranted assumptions about a situation and then deal with obstacles in a positive way.

-Compromising: seek a middle ground solution so that there is a win-win result;assume that it is bettered to have a watered down solution than none at all.

-Withdrawing: try to avoid any disagreements or uncomfortable situations by not engaging anyone in a conflict situation

-Smoothing: work at making everyone happy; try to avoid anyone being uncomfortable by looking at the positive and not dealing directly with conflict issues.

 Have you ever taken the moral high road when being confronted? Have you ever just risen above the occasion  because you knew it was the right thing to do and then been attacked for it?I so miserably recently was and  I came to the conclusion that sometimes the best thing to say is nothing at all.