In his book, UnOffendable: No Offense. None Taken., viral documentary-maker, executive coach A person standing in front of a crowd Description automatically generatedand speaker Ryan Leak (media features include Good Morning America, The TODAY Show and more) argues that being unoffendable isn't about never getting offended. It's about not staying offended.

According to Leak, one of the greatest threats to our happiness is holding on to an offense. One offense has the ability to ruin someone's day, week, month, year, or for some, their entire life.

UnOffendable is an outline of how the things in life that have hurt us most can shape our confidence and help us become the people we've always wanted to be.

Leak is available to discuss the 7 keys to living an unoffendable life:

1. Deal with the part of you that offends others. In everything you do and say, try to bring out the best in others.

2. Don’t allow yourself to be offended when your life doesn’t measure up to other people’s expectations.

3. Love people that don’t look like, talk like, think like, believe like, vote like, spend money like, or live like you.

4. Grow in the midst of being offended. Offense is a blessing in disguise that give you an opportunity to change.

5. Invite honesty into your world. It removes the opportunity for offense to create space between you and the people you love the most.

6. Make allowance for people to offend you before they offend you. Forgive those who have already offended you because holding on to the pain keeps you offended instead of allowing you to live in freedom.

7. Don’t allow the fear of offense to keep you in your comfort zone.

In sum, don’t lose quality relationships over small offenses. Let them go. Allow yourself to see beyond the offense and give the relationship the opportunity to heal. Being unoffendable is a choice. And when you make it, you give every relationship in your world a chance to thrive.