Relationships – How To Improve Yours Today
How healthy are your relationships? How important are they? When last did you do a “stock take”? Do you have functional, loving, value adding and empowering relationships with all whom you come into contact with.
Research shows that many people who live long lives have strong social networks consisting of family and friendship circles - people who more than likely add value to their lives and support them positively.
The fact of the matter is we are not meant to live in isolation or be alone. When people adopt a truly reclusive lifestyle they often wither and die, first within and then physically, long before their time.
Human beings are not meant to function without others because life is about the love you give and the love you receive. The next time you feel “down”, add value to someone else’s life in some way, then notice how doing so lifts your spirits. By contributing value to other’s lives we connect with our purpose on this planet.
Consider your relationships - which ones, past and present are special to you and why? How do you contribute to your relationships?
It’s so easy to take these for granted. Most of us just assume that our relationships will take care of themselves but they don’t. One way you can take better care of yours, is to treat the important people in your life with value whenever you can. Don’t wait till it’s too late. Today and every day, focus on looking for the good in others and expressing it to them.
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Great article as always Marcus! Thank you, I posted it to my Facebook profile so others can read and share!
Thanks,
Dave.
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Marcus Baker Reply:
July 14th, 2009 at 9:19 am
Thank you so much for doing that Dave. You just rock man!!
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Great article Marcus really enjoyed reading it, just Pinged it for you!
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Marcus Baker Reply:
August 31st, 2009 at 10:08 am
Thank you Amanda. That was very kind of you. I really like your website – very professional!
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Reading your article spontaneously came into my mind a word from ‘Georges Bernanos’, I found more than 30 years ago, which became the slogan for my life:
Um zu Leben, brauche ich menschliche Gesichter um mich.
(To life, I need human faces to me.)
Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), French author
The question I ask now: do we really have these human faces with us?
To my opinion we are looking for those ‘human faces’ in internet with social network marketing…..
It should be great to have these contacts in our real world.
This with italian/german greetings
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Marcus Baker Reply:
August 31st, 2009 at 10:12 am
Hi Ulrike,
I agree with you that we should have human interaction in the real world first. Any social marketing on the Internet should be an extension of that, not a replacement. Thanks for stopping by.
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Lovely piece. I endevour to nurture the relationships in my life. I have a small but beautiful friends and family group around me and I treasure them because it took me a long time to find them and them me.
Life doesn’t always turn out quite like we wanted or expected, sometimes it turns out, and the people in it, even better.
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Marcus Baker Reply:
March 8th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
Thank you for your comment. I can tell you value your relationships with friends and family. Good for you!
Marcus
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