Wednesday, November 17, 2010

How to Build Real and Satisfying Friendships and Relationships


How to Build Real and Satisfying Friendships and Relationships

Dove, what exactly is a REAL and satisfying friendship/relationship? Well, it's a friendship or relationship where something of positive value is exchanged on a regular basis (useful advice, a helping hand, the loaning of items, an ear to listen, a shoulder to cry on etc.) 

Moreover, any friendship or relationship worth its salt has a healthy dose of positive exchanges of VALUE. With a minimum of negative exchanges (insults, backstabbing, gossip, being an obstacle....)
 
So, how do you build a lot of value-based relationships? Well, here are seven things you can start doing from today;
 
1. OPEN UP to others a little bit more. Dare to! Even if you’re an introvert and prefer to be quiet, the best thing you can do for your life is to work on overcoming that nature. 

Talk to people! If you find this hard, practice techniques for enhancing basic conversation. 

Moreover, work on tactics that make you appear more confident.

2. Surround yourself with people. GO WHERE PEOPLE ARE and open up! Join and attend clubs, conferences, courses, conventions and meetings. 

If you hear someone there talk, who seems interesting, follow up directly by asking a question. 

You can also volunteer - volunteering gives others a chance to know you!
 
3. Host parties. Start having dinner parties and backyard barbecues on a regular basis. Don’t just invite the same old people either, rotate the people you invite and try to mix up the company as well. 

Don’t just invite the same circles, dove, MIX the circles. This also gives you the powerful opportunity to introduce people who may not know each other, but may actually have a lot in common. 

And if you don’t really know where to start, start with your neighbors and your current friends.
 
4. KEEP IN TOUCH with people and make a regular habit of keeping in direct contact with them. 

Here's a technique; keep a list of people you want to maintain friendships and relationships with, and strive to contact people on that list on a regular basis. 

And do let them know regularly what you're up to and ask what they’re doing.
 
5. Give of yourself freely and if someone needs help, HELP! Don’t worry about 'payback.' Don’t worry about what you might get out of it wither - just help them. 

If you contact someone and find out they’re stuck on a project, need a job, or need a helping hand in some other way, either provide that help yourself (if you can,) or find someone who can provide that help and make the connection.
 
6. Ask for advice and SHARE what you get. A very useful thing is to treat your circle of friends like something of a help group. Example; you're stuck on deciding whether or not to make a big purchase, so you ask a large group of friends for help and suggestions. 

Then, you compile all of that information, figure out what’s best for you, then take the best of the information and send it back to all your friends. 

This lets them know what you found out and is an almost universally valuable idea as people love participating to help a friend! They also love getting that info back.
 
7. Show APPRECIATION for any help that you get. At some point, you’ll need some direct help from the people you’ve built relationships with (you’d be surprised how often they provide indirect help.) 

When you do ask for that help, be thankful! Thank them for showing up, thank them for whatever help they provide, and do what you can to make their contribution easier – plenty of beverages, food or anything else you can provide :-)
 
Doing these things over and over again, my feminine lovely, will cause you to build a LOT of stable, value-based friendships and relationships over time. Including real and satisfying friendships and relationships!

Time and time again, those relationships will come through for you when you need them in your personal life and career.
 
Anyhow, I do hope you enjoyed this post; How to Build Real and Satisfying Friendships and Relationships.'






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5 comments:

Shadelle said...

Great post once again! Im going to take your advice and volunteer somewhere this holiday season. Im sure I'll meet tons of people with interesting stories.

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Prion Indigo said...

Melina my dear, it is wrong to assume that being an introvert is a bad thing. Introversion does not mean shyness or anti-social behaviour! We merely obtain our energy by being alone in quietness. Not everyone is meant to be an extrovert. Introversion is a cognitive process that denotes where we get our energy. Does not mean shyness, or dis-like of people.

Look up MBTI (Meyers-Briggs type indicator, based on Jungian psychotypology) and psychometric profiling!!

My pretty, I feel deeply offended that you would suggest introversion is a bad thing. It merely means that a person loves and NEEDS to spend a lot of time in her own rich inner world.

In order to give to others, I must first be alone to recharge. That's introversion.

Bung Dwijaya said...

Nice share. Those tips might useful for me.