Five Wishes Quotes

“Wherever your path takes you, may all your deathbed wishes come true, and may you celebrate each and every one of them many long years before your final breath.”
― Gay Hendricks, Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True

“The best attitude to take toward back talk is to reach out and embrace it with love, compassion, and understanding. No need to criticize it for its shortcomings or to waste time in recriminations. Just give a loving nod and a hug to any back talk you get, and move on to the joyful creation of your fulfilled life. ”
― Gay Hendricks, Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True

“I want to make a commitment to you, to create a passionate, creative lifelong relationship with you. Is this what you want?”
― Gay Hendricks, Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True

“Welcome the back talk, because it's completely natural and normal. It's actually a sign that the new idea you've planted in your mind is taking root.”
― Gay Hendricks, Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True

“putting off. Feeling good is great, but there is a power to completion that goes beyond good feeling into the whole of life. What I’ve come to see is that the act of completing something, no matter how large or how small, puts you into harmony with the universe. If I say to you, “I’ll call you today,” I have created a new force in the universe, a new agreement about how things will be. If I then make good on my agreement and call you today, I line myself up in harmony with those forces. If I don’t call you today, I leave a loose end, an open circuit, an unresolved story line. By not calling you, I communicate something that affects my life and our relationship: my word is no good, and you are not worth my effort to keep my word. My experience has been that each incompletion saps my energy and clouds my relationship with the people on the other end. The act of completion restores my energy and clears the air that circulates through my relationships. Further, though, each act of completion celebrates our connection to the universe”
― Gay Hendricks, Five Wishes: How Answering One Simple Question Can Make Your Dreams Come True