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Finding a Community That Works For You

At this point, you’ve built up the ability to build individual relationships, and now you’re looking to find more alignment about the things that matter to your soul. Finding a community that encourages and facilitates you in doing the things you love is essential to growing into shoes bigger than you thought possible to fill.Continue reading “Finding a Community That Works For You”

Relationship Building

You’ve started to make it into a group and found a hobby worth engaging in. This is great, and you’re definitely on the way to making close friendships. You’ve built a little rapport with several people in the group, and you want to learn how to invite them to hang out sometime. Underneath are severalContinue reading “Relationship Building”

The Logistics Of Small Talk

Who should I talk to? Broadly speaking, if you’re going to a hobby, a sport, or a class that meets regularly, you should be able to approach anyone you’ve seen more than once or twice, and you’ll likely be well-received. So, if you’re in an area you regularly frequent, the people you often see areContinue reading “The Logistics Of Small Talk”

Social Skills Self-Assessment

“[Only] what gets measured, gets managed” – Peter Drucker One key tool that will help you in your friendship journey is self-assessment. The aim of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive self-assessment that identifies key areas of improvement. This exam stays between us, so please assess yourself honestly. It’s better to do so becauseContinue reading “Social Skills Self-Assessment”

Some Common Myths (about friendship)

Part of the reason that making friends in-person on the internet age is challenging is that the internet age lacks thoughtful moderation and synthesis. Anyone can have an opinion, any of the time, about anything. Unfortunately for us, there are more ways to be wrong than to be right. Worse, Hollywood, America’s royal family, seemsContinue reading “Some Common Myths (about friendship)”

Solve Problems Often

Unless you have an unimpeachable reputation at the top of your field forever and always, you’ll need to do things other people want you to do. So, when you take on a position, try and figure out what’s bothering the person who’s employing you. Sometimes it’s not what you’re hired to do, but if youContinue reading “Solve Problems Often”