Up Your Averages: A Daily Guide To Improving Your Personal Relationship: Up Your Averages, #2

By Mark Cass and Michelle Cass

This is Book Two in the Up Your Averages Daily Devotional series.

While the first book offered daily morsels of wisdom and bite-sized pieces of information on how to improve the quality of your life, this

book, while written in the same daily devotional format, is for couples and focuses on how to draw closer to your partner and how to improve the

quality of your personal relationship.

 

Relationships are hard work and often require lots of patience, forgiveness, and grace, but they can also be the most rewarding aspect of your life.

This book is for anyone who wants to improve the quality of their love life and grow closer together as a couple.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mark Cass
• Release date: Jul 9, 2023
• ISBN: 9798891211810

Mark Cass

Mark grew up the son of a Pentecostal preacher who found himself facing a prison sentence for a crime he did not commit at the age of 18. From there he went on to serve almost 11 calendar years inside the Florida Department of Corrections. He was released in 2003 and came home to discover the world had moved on without him. Mark found meaningful employment was not easy to come by and as a result he started his own recycling business, and then moved on to own two different marketing agencies and then was presented with the annual Culture Keeper award given away each year in the Master Networks organization to the entrepreneur who was most outstanding in their Region. Mark has since become a highly sought after consultant on all manner of subjects from business, marketing, life coaching, etc... He is an inspirational speaker and the author of 4 different books so far... Though his 5th book 'Really Good At Barely Getting By - A survival guide for those living paycheck to paycheck' is highly anticipated.

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Up Your Averages

What is it?

Up Your Averages is the personal motto that I live by and comes from the Jim Rohn quote, You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. When I got a hold of the meaning of this simple quote, it changed my life. I began to seek out better friends than the ones that I had at the time. I began to seek out people who were having better conversations about life.

What does it mean?

Up Your Averages, to me, means to continually seek to improve different areas of your life. Beginning with the thoughts that we entertain. It is our thoughts that lead to the conversations that we have, and our thoughts and conversations are what give birth to the actions that we take.

How do I do it?

Upping one’s averages is done over time, and immediately both. It is accomplished each time you make an improvement in your life. With each decision you make, each thought you entertain, every conversation that you have, and every bite you take, you are moving your future in one direction or another.

The more you can improve your life, the more your life will improve. Reading and implementing this book is a great place to start.

Improving Your Personal Relationship

This specific book is for couples and is meant to be read by each party in the relationship. It is small snack-size daily morsels of Wisdom and relationship advice designed to cause the two of you to rekindle an old flame and draw closer together. It Is book two of a three-part series.

Mark & Michelle Cass

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Authors, Spouses, & Passionate Lovers

We Recommend

You are certainly free to read this book in any way that you want to. For as long or as little at a time as you desire, but the recommended way would be to take one day at a time with your significant other.

As the authors, though, we would recommend that you insert a short daily read somewhere in your morning routine. Perhaps, with that first cup of morning coffee, orange juice, or whatever it is, you like to start your day.

Read that day’s thought, reflect on it, and discuss it with your lover. Both of you turn the lesson over in your mind and ponder its significance and how you can apply it to your lives.

I promise each day that you do that will start better, and so will you. Your relationship will grow stronger, and your intimacy will burn hotter than it ever has before.

Enjoy the journey. It’s better than the destination.

Mark & Michelle

True Love Always

Choose love, especially when love is the hardest.

"Happily ever after doesn’t simply happen.

We make it happen."

Misunderstandings happen. It’s how we handle them that matters.

Even when I don’t like you, I love you so deeply.

It takes more than two people to make a relationship; it takes two people and good communication.

Communication is more about listening than it is about talking.

A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.

A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.

Love, at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

I always want to share my popcorn with you."

Day 1 (Sunday)

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Being with someone who loves you is the bare minimum. You deserve so much more. Sometimes life gets busy, and we get away from showing daily affection or sometimes fail to express a proper amount of appreciation for our partner.

It becomes impossible to crave someone like you once did when they begin to list you, your thoughts, feelings and desires lower and lower down their priority list. You wouldn’t become more and more endeared to your partner if they did that to you. Nor will they if you do that to them.

One way that we combat this is to keep a list of all the reasons why we appreciate each other. It is helpful to read at the beginning of each day, as well as in moments of frustration and disappointment.

Do we get on each other’s nerves? Absolutely. Do we sometimes hurt each other’s feelings? Not intentionally, but yes. But there is so much more to our relationship than that. We also make each other laugh, and we enjoy each other’s company and the sound of the other one’s voice. We tell each other how proud we are of each other.