by Ola Uchendu

Created on: October 01, 2007

Enthusiasm can inject live into your relationship
Are you excited about life? Do you eagerly look forward to each new day? If your answer is yes then you must be living life to the fullest. But if your answer is no, then it is time for you to get some enthusiasm into you life and watch the transformation that will follow. Enthusiasm makes you give your relationship your full potential. Enthusiasm constantly renews and releases energy from within you towards the renewal of your marriage. Every great marriage has this quality of enthusiasm. Each partner brings his or her own dose of enthusiasm into the marriage and what you have is combined force of enthusiasm that works to radiate joy and successful living. In fact, enthusiasm actually works wonders in promoting in promoting peace in a relationship.

How to build enthusiasm into your marriage
Don't dwell on the bad. No human being is perfect. And you don't change anybody by barking, nagging, and quarreling over the bad. In fact, you don't even have to try to change your spouse. Instead, ignore the negative and chant the beauty of the good.It foolish to accept that your marriage can never be as great as the very best. You may be telling yourself that you are not rich enough, or pretty enough to create a good relationship like that other person. A woman once said to me, "Ola, you know that your husband loves you because you are beautiful and well educated. But my husband despises me because I don't know anything. I did not go far in school. He goes after university girls..." I asked the woman, "How do you know that you don't know anything? You have just accepted the concept of not knowing anything, and by so doing you have actually rendered yourself ignorant." Nobody should ever let herself be a victim of the dismal concept of self - assumed personal limitations. Whether you went to school or not; have a degree or not, you can and should be enthusiastic about yourself and your marriage. Enthusiasm is infectious. If you are always positive and enthusiastic despite your spouse's attitude, he will soon be infected by your own enthusiasm. Believe that you possess significant reserves of health, energy and knowledge, and your belief will help create the reality.

Do not let your thoughts paralyze you
Many people are paralyzed in their thoughts. They have sold themselves to a constricted view of themselves They think to themselves: " I can never please my spouse. This marriage will never be good. I am just enduring this whole

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