How to Reconnect With Someone After Losing Touch
If you’re wondering how to reconnect with someone after losing touch, the best place to start is simpler than you think: reach out without making the distance the problem. You do not need the perfect explanation, a long apology, or a reason important enough to justify the message. You need a genuine desire to reconnect […]
How to Be Intentional With Your Relationships (Without It Feeling Like a Chore)
If you want to know how to be intentional in relationships, start by making relationship-building part of what you already do instead of adding it to an already full to-do list. Intentional relationships are not built through grand gestures. They are built through small, consistent moments of attention that tell another person, I remember you. […]
The Relationship Advantage Is Becoming the Competitive Advantage
For decades, businesses have searched for a competitive advantage. Better products. Better technology. Better pricing. Better processes. Better marketing. Those things still matter. But they’re no longer enough to make you truly different. Today, the relationship advantage is becoming one of the few things competitors can’t easily copy. Nearly every business now has access to […]
How to Build Stronger Relationships: Make People Feel Known
Learn how to build stronger relationships by being intentional, not by being impressive. Relationships almost never fall apart because someone stopped caring. They drift because someone stopped being intentional, and the drift is so quiet that you usually do not notice it until you need the relationship and realize it is not there anymore. I […]
How to Build Trust Faster: 7 Habits of the Most Trusted Person in the Room
If someone asked me the secret to building a successful business, my answer probably wouldn’t be what they expect. It isn’t having the best marketing strategy. It isn’t mastering the latest sales techniques. And it certainly isn’t trying to become the smartest person in the room. It’s becoming the person people trust. Over the past […]
How to Avoid Becoming a Commodity: The Competitive Advantage Every Industry Needs
I recently had two keynote discovery calls that couldn’t have been more different. The first was with a healthcare laundry services company. The second was with a real estate organization. On paper, they had almost nothing in common. Different customers. Different industries. Different challenges. Different regulations. Yet by the end of both conversations, they asked […]
Reach Out First: The Message You Almost Didn’t Send
If you want to strengthen relationships, it usually starts with one simple decision: reaching out first. There is a small moment that happens in almost every meaningful relationship. You think about someone. You consider whether to reach out first. And then a quiet voice in your head talks you out of it. “It has been […]
How Taylor Swift Built a Thousand Relationships Before She Ever Needed Them
Everyone is talking about the number. A thousand guests at Madison Square Garden. Names like Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Paul McCartney, and stars from across the NFL…. Half of Hollywood and half NFL in the same room, all there to watch Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce get married. The number is the least interesting part […]
Be The One Who Goes First
Be The One Who Goes First. Most relationship problems are not communication problems. They are initiation problems. Most relationship problems are not communication problems. They are initiation problems. I have been thinking about this for a long time, because I see it everywhere. In friendships that quietly fade. In professional relationships that should have been […]
Access Is Not Connection
We have never had more access to other people… And yet, we have never felt less of a connection. Think about your phone right now. It is probably within arm’s length. You can text any person you have ever exchanged numbers with. You can voice memo, slide into a DM, drop a comment on someone’s […]