题目内容：

Taking care of unsolved issues of the past will free you to move ahead with confidence. The final step toward putting your past behind so that you can reach for what’s possible is tying up your loose ends. Loose ends are the unsolved relationships that keep you from sleeping worry free at night. 1. You have a loose end if there’s someone you don’t want to sit next to at a holiday dinner. Loose ends are distracting and have an amazing way of biting you in the bottom at the worst times.

How to Tie up Your Loose Ends

1. 2.These could be past relationships, employers, business partners, friends, family, or co–workers.

2. Contact each of these five loose ends. Invite each separately to a coffee shop or some other nonthreatening, non-alcohol environment. Tell each one that you want to apologize for allowing things to get crossways between you. Some may doubt your intentions, but tell them that you sincerely feel it’s time to clear the air. Ask those who agree to meet to write down any ways they think you wronged them, and you do the same. 3.

3. Show up on time and thank each for being forgiving enough to meet with you. Be an adult here—finger pointing only tears people apart. Remember, your experience may be—and most likely is—totally different from his. Listen to each issue each of them raises and try to see it from their perspectives (视角). 4. Seek to understand why they have bad feelings toward you. Apologize for each thing they think you did to wrong them (even if you don’t completely agree with his view of the situation).

After you tie up your first loose end, you’ll want to solve them all. This is hard to explain until you have done it; but once you do, you’ll know what I mean. 5. Most of all, I think this process helped me become a more understanding and patient friend.

A.I learned so much about myself by tying up my loose ends.

B.Tell them to bring this list to your get–together.

C.You have a loose end if there’s someone you don’t want to run into on a first date or at work.

D.Loose ends are very disturbing for everyone in our life.

E.Here is a guide on how to tie up your loose ends.

F.Don’t interrupt them when they are sharing.

G.Identify the five people with whom you have the most unsolved issues.