The Grown Zone

In the Grown Zone we teach what it means to make healthy, Grown decisions (not merely the adult choices you have the right to make, whether or not they are to your advantage). This includes challenging self-destructive beliefs about how to create and sustain healty relationships, including marriages. This edition of Grown Zone Radio explains why such relationship education is key to protecting your business, career and finances. If your wealth, influence, visibility and status are on the rise, you are particularly vulnerable to making poor relationship choices. We discuss three ways smart business people put their success and wealth at risk in relationships:You attract and choose potential relationship partners based on what you have, not who you are.  You attract and are attracted to adult dependents who drain, but can't replenish, you and your resources. You believe that you are too smart, popular, influential and otherwise successful to be exploited. Check out this edition of Grown Zone Radio to learn why excellent relationships don't happen by chance, but choice. Commit to your relationship education NOW by choosing 21 Days of Grown Zone: Intentional Personal Growth at GrownAdvice.com.Buy the Book: LovingInTheGrownZone.comOfficial Site: GrownZone.com

In the Grown Zone we challenge conventional wisdom, including overvalued and ineffective beliefs about how to create and sustain healty relationships, including marriages. This edition of Grown Zone Radio reveals three reasons why church-based premarital counseling, in the absence of ongoing relationship education, does not prevent divorce:It does not reach those most in need of relationship education, when they need it most. Church-based premarital counseling is no substitute for the education and training that must take place long before the marriage proposal. It is biased in favor of the marriage happening, whether the relationship is proven to be healthy or not—and even when there is ample evidence that it is unhealthy. The fact that most premarital counseling takes place at the same time that wedding plans are being made and carried out does not help.It is usually too little, too late without the solid foundation of a healthy relationship. Five to 10 premarital counseling sessions in the months or weeks before a wedding is no substitute for the ongoing relationship education that should begin before reaching the age of marital consent.Check out this edition of Grown Zone Radio to learn why excellent relationships don't happen by chance, but choice. Commit to your relationship education NOW by choosing 21 Days of Grown Zone: Intentional Personal Growth at GrownAdvice.com.Buy the Book: LovingInTheGrownZone.comOfficial Site: GrownZone.com

A key benefit of committing to the kind of relationship education we provide in the Grown Zone is learning to challenge conventional wisdom, including popular, yet overvalued and ineffective beliefs about finding love. This edition of Grown Zone Radio reveals three pieces of widely promoted and popularly accepted relationship advice, and why they are overrated when it comes to choosing and maintaining healthy relationships:Communication is the key to healthy relationships. We explain while good communication is a byproduct and common characteristic of healthy relationships, more effective communication alone can't sustain unhealthy ones—nor should it. To find true love you need to understand the opposite sex. Far more important is study, understanding and acceptance of self, and then appreciation and acceptance of others as individuals, not just as members of a gender group.The definition of relationship success is staying together—no matter what. We'll explain why knowing when and how to end relationships, without guilt, shaming or bitterness, is far more important to your ability to find healthy love.Check out this edition of Grown Zone Radio to learn why excellent relationships don't happen by chance, but choice. Then, bypass conventional wisdom in favor of rear relationship education by choosing 21 Days of Grown Zone: Intentional Personal Growth at GrownAdvice.com.Buy the Book: LovingInTheGrownZone.comOfficial Site: GrownZone.com

You were born with both the need and the capacity to love, but you weren't born knowing (and were likely never taught) how to create and grow healthy relationships. Your success and happiness depends on your willingness to invest time, attention, money and intention to learn. This edition of Grown Zone Radio reveals three important reasons to boost your L.Q. (love quotient) by committing to relationship education:To protect your money, financial assets and earning power.  The financial costs of poor relationship choices are both measurable and considerable. The wedding industry is a $51 billion business; the divorce industry is about equal to that. The cost of one failed marriage cycle can easily exceed $100,000.To protect your personal security and safety. Many people pay for poor relationship choices with their lives; others live with violence, fear, abuse and intimidation in relationships. Relationship education is a key to your ability to recognize danger signs and make safe choices. To protect your confidence, self-worth and peace of mind. Relationship education dramatically increases your ability to secure the healthy love you want, need and deserve.Check out this edition of Grown Zone Radio to learn why excellent relationships don't happen by chance, but choice. Then, make a valuable investment in boosting your L.Q. by choosing 21 Days of Grown Zone: Intentional Personal Growth at GrownAdvice.com.Buy the Book: LovingInTheGrownZone.comOfficial Site: GrownZone.com

You can't attract and embrace excellent relationships while cheating with mediocrity. This edition of Grown Zone Radio reveals three actions you can take to reject unhealthy disatisfying relationships so that you can commit to the love of your life:Break up with "not perfect"—also known as mediocrity.  Stop settling for less than what is healthy for you. You can't love excellence while cheating with average.Court, woo and passionately pursue the love of your life—YOU. The love you seek from others can never exceed or be a substitute for the love you practice with yourself. Begin a committed, faithful relationship with excellence. Finding and keeping the love of your life does not happen by accident, but only with an intentional commitment to personal growth and healthy relationships.Check out this edition of Grown Zone Radio to learn why excellent relationships don't happen by chance, but choice. Then, settle for nothing less than the greatest love of your life by choosing 21 Days of Grown Zone: Intentional Personal Growth at GrownAdvice.com.Buy the Book: LovingInTheGrownZone.comOfficial Site: GrownZone.com