I maintain that the key to saving the executive marriage is to utilize the same language and tactics that the executive has successfully used in the business world, such as becoming a skilled communicator, building upon strengths, and maximizing resources.

By using the same principles that work in business, you will learn time-efficient strategies for increasing your commitment to your spouse, making the most of your time together, increasing trust, and creating a collaborative atmosphere.

The Ten Power Strategies:

1. Success Begins with Commitment: Do you want to view your partner lovingly or not? Are you for or against your partner?

2. Unite, Don't Divide: You have a choice every time you speak to your partner--you can say something that will nurture your relationship or tear it down.

3. Develop a Culture of Collaboration:A marriage succeeds to the extent that both partners can accept influence from each other.

4.Create Lasting Value: Trust is at the foundation of any relationship.

5. Become a Skillful Communicator:Speak from your heart. A loving marriage does not center on sharing responsibilities--it is distinguished by emotional involvement.

6. Build on Strengths: Every relationship experiences conflict, but not every couple has the skills to resolve it.

7. Grow Your Children Effectively: Be role models for your children.

8. Periodically Assess Progress: Awareness is the first step in healing. Feedback is central to awareness and to maintaining gains. Knowing how you we are doing keeps us on track.

9. Protect Your Investment: Relational competence cannot be improved overnight. The emotional brain learns new patterns over weeks and months, not days.

10. Maximize Resources: Don't wait to take action. Seek help. Early intervention is less painful and more effective than intervention in a relationship that has been worn down over a long period.

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"The fundamentals about responsibility and commitment that Joel Block addresses in his book about connecting as a couple are the same core principles that I teach in the world of trading and finance. If your marriage isn't working, the first thing you need to do is take a look at yourself and how you are creating the failure. Become responsible for your experience of your marriage, follow the ten steps recommended by Joel Block and create the relationship that you really want and deserve."

--Dr Van K Tharp, author of Trade Your Way to Financial Freedom, and world-renowned coach for traders http://www.iitm.com/