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The keys to understanding successful relationships
How to unlock relationships that matter
Relationships are a big deal. It’s not a coincidence that you can’t throw a rock without hitting an article about how to to make them better. In fact, if you Google the term “relationships” you’ll be met with more than 2.2 billion-with-a-b results in just 0.62 seconds! Can you imagine if Google wasn’t in such a damn hurry all the time and spent a second or two looking? It would be overwhelming.
The point is, relationships are a hot topic, and while there isn’t a shortage of information out there, there is clearly a shortage of people acting on that information, which tells me that there is still plenty of work to do.
The keys to developing successful relationships
Relationships come in many shapes, sizes, and shades of gray to be sure. There are many skills to develop, traits to foster, and behaviors to improve on, as it pertains to building and maintaining relationships in business and in life. However, let’s leave those to another article for the time being. If we zoom out a bit and think about relationships at a higher level, we can explore just two fundamental needs, as given to me by Wesley Anne Little, a relationship counselor in North Carolina. According to Wesley, if you distill…
