You have relationships with everything in life. The quality of every relationship is determined by the quality of the relationship you have with yourself. That’s why your relationship with yourself is the most important relationship of all.
I am not only referring to relationships with people, but I am also referring to relationships with things, objects, animals, places, ideas and concepts like money, time, authority, failure, success, etc.
The quality of the relationship we have with anything is determined by the meanings we give it and relate to through our thinking (meanings), feeling, speaking and behaving about it. In other words, you are the meaning-maker and, therefore, the creator of your life.
It is from your meanings and associated emotions that you respond or behave. The consequences of your actions create your results and. thereby, your life.