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Relationships For Success – Part 2
Posted on April 20th, 2009 23 comments
Build relationships that help you create the life you desire.
A large portion of your success in life will be determined by your ability to cultivate and build relationships, personal and spiritual. Your ability to communicate and interact with people in a positive way will carry you far on your life’s journey. Learning to cooperate and build relationships will have a cause and effect reaction. By building the positive relationship you will soon have others on your side to help you with your goals and dreams.
A major counterpart is that without the ability to build and cultivate positive relationships you will experience failure, unhappiness, aggravation, and frustration throughout your personal life and while at work. A lack of good relationships at work is among the most popular reasons for termination or resignation and not the lack of skill one has for the job. The great news is that you can learn and improve your relationship skills. Why do so many people never have healthy relationships?
One of the biggest causes of unhappiness in life is because of poor relationships. How can some families and friends interact and communicate beautifully while others don’t speak to each other at all?
Master your relationship skills by mastering the relationship you have with yourself. What kind of self-esteem, character, or self-value do you have?
These things build the positive and healthy personality you must obtain in order to have great relationship building skills. The way you see yourself will reflect the way you see others.
Do you look for the bad in others or do you notice the good? We all know people who always complain and criticize
about others, never seeing the good. That is the first test to relationship building. Working on yourself will slingshot you on your way to great relationships. When you begin to work on the inside and start cultivating the qualities you want in others you’ll see others in a new way.
Are you able to communicate and get along with people with different values, beliefs, and morals? When you pick only friends that are like you it seems almost narcissistic don’t you think? Seriously, if you only get along with people that are like-minded, you limit yourself to a small group of possibilities.
23 responses to “Relationships For Success – Part 2”
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I love the sentiment.
There’s so much value in having friends and acquaintances with very different values, interests and opinions to you.
JJ Jalopy.
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Great reminder of how important relationships are to both our own happiness and that of those around us. I really appreciate your point that we need to love others as we love ourselves. If we are lacking in the are of loving ourselves, it will definitely impact how we love others.
Great post!
Pam
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it is so mimportant to have people of differnent value systems in one’s life…it adds to the richness!!!
David Power
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Bulk of our happiness comes from successful relationships, NOT from material achievements.
John Ho
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I think many people take the nature of relationships for granted, or else look at them as entities that are independent of the individual’s involvement in them.
Great post!
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Lynn,
The last two posts are really special to me, and I really appreciate the reminder of what you wrote.
Thanks,
Mitch
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Great post and useful information. It made me think of some of the adolescents who see me for therapy right now.
They don’t want to “conform” – it’s the equivalent to death to be like everyone else… what I have been trying to work on with them is that they have to know how to cultivate and maintain relationships in the mainstream world as well.Jen B
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It is best to have a wide variety of friends, as well as to read a variety of books, and travel to a wide variety of places.
The more, the better.
Seize the Day,
Rob
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“Master your relationship skills by mastering the relationship you have with yourself.”
You touch on a very powerful idea here. How we see and treat others all starts with our self-image.
All the best,
Yann
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Project what you want to be and be a mirror for those that you have relationships with.
Thanks
Bob Kaufer
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If you want to see good you will. if you want to see bad, you will. Generally, you get what you expect.
Christian Haller
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Well indeed as a Romantic Relationship coach, I would have to agree 100% that it is relationships of all kinds which enrich our lives and make them worth living.
Best regards,
April Braswell
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I believe we were created to be in relationship. That’s it. Everything else is just…frosting. Great post.
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You get as good as you give. my son has encountered a few poblems with relationships at school. i told him to get friends you first have to be a friend. He’s working on it.
Don Shepherd
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I was just having this conversation with a friend the other day. The ability to network and build relationships is a key skill for success and happiness.
Steve
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We are in relationship with everyone and everything. I fulfilling life has to have satisfying relationships. They are everything.
Good post.Kind regards,
Anthony
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Great thoughts… when get down to it everything we do or get done comes down to a relationship of some kind.
Thanks! Well said.
JC
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Relationships are so important. I have lots of friends, but very few close friends. I meet people all the time who tell me after they get to know me that they didn’t like me when they first saw me. They don’t realize that I don’t need or want to know this. I always try to find the good in people because I grew up in a house where it was the norm to do the opposite.
Lisa McLellan, Babysitting Classes – Babysitters, Nannies, and Au-pairs
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Great advice. We should work on our relationship with ourselves as a spring board to better relationships with others. I think that is sage advice, as our self esteem will dictate how we allow ourselves to relate to others.
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Duane Cunningham April 21st, 2009 at 05:19
Hi Lynn,
You offer brilliant advice for those that wish to have great lasting friendships and relationships with the people they love!
You have hit the key
Its all about people, not things long after we are gone the memories will still remain about the kind of person you were and what you stood for!
Keep it up…Love this post!
Duane
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Great advice about looking for the good in people. Mark
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Or as the wise men say: Know thyself. You round it out with advice to start there and then relate with others in a positive way. Sound, very sound.
Pat
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Hi, interesting post. I have been wondering about this issue,so thanks for writing. I’ll certainly be subscribing to your blog.
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JJ Jalopy April 20th, 2009 at 14:07