Tips for Developing Close Relationships

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Now let's begin. For one thing that is really important to me when I think of wellness and I well I ask what is the depth and closeness of my relationships? What's the depth and the closeness of my relationships? So, so key like so I don't think that you can be well if your relationships unwell long term. I think yes, we can all live in our own little world, in our own little bubble. But wellness is social, right? The world's healthiest and happiest people tend to be fairly social people. Doesn't mean they're extroverts. They might just have one or two deep, close, intimate, friendly relationships and those relationships really matter. Here's my practices at home and at work for developing close relationships. Number one, I do not expect other people to think or feel or experience life like me. It just isn't there. I don't think my team members should think like me or are like me. I don't think that my spouse is anything like me. She has her own universe of emotions and feelings are very different than mine. Trust me, way different. I think my family, my friends is like, there's no for me demand that they think like me. It doesn't mean I don't get frustrated that we don't have a good relationship, or I don't like their communication, or I don't like something they said, or I feel neglected or hurt. We all have those things. The question is, over a period of time, do you have depth and closeness in that relationship? I promise there's a ton of things. Denise, my spouse, she would say that she doesn't like about how I think or how I experience the world. And I would say the same about her. But the question isn't, do we like everything that we say. The question is, is there depth and closeness and intimacy in our relationship? And that only happens if enough times you realize the person is different than you. Different preferences, different hopes, different needs. Like I'm probably needier than my wife is in terms of like emotional stuff. I just the way I am. And you might be different than your spouse, your friend, your dad, your mom, someone who raised you. And if you're trying to cram the world with this expectation that they gotta be, think and behave exactly like you, that is where there is a ripping of that relationship. You gotta let other people have their own life. And the more you try to control their life, the more misery you have. A lot of mental health is letting other people live their life, not trying to control everything. You know what mental illness is when you feel like you must control everything. This is why we have terms like OCD or we have obsessive uncontrollable disorders where we. When you lose that control and everything has to be perfect to your expectations and what you want, you're ill, but we casually expect every be exactly perfect. Oh, someone didn't say what you think they need to say exactly in social media. So you just jump in there with hate and you just destroy them and cancel them. What is the energetic exchange there? That's not. Something like hate is not wellness. Hate is a function and a form of illness. When you spread negativity or hate towards other people because they don't think or feel or behave like you, that's not adding to the positivity or the progress of the world. It's not empathetic or compassionate. It's not graceful. It's just being mean. And who wishes more people understood this, this day and age? I just watched people. I posted about this the other day on social media go, I don't understand how people have so much time to spread hate and negativity and cancel other people. I'm like, I'm too busy building things. I'm too busy leading. I'm too busy serving other people. I don't know where you get the time to sit there and just obliterate other people. And besides, what is that doing for your own mental health, justifying your ego? Well, I know that might be a dramatic example, but are there ways in your life that you just expect the kids to be so perfect and to think like you thought when you were a kid and to treat people like you treated them? And when they don't live up to that expectation, you feel unhappy as a parent, you feel angered as a parent. What about at work when, you know, you run your business and everything is on the line and you expect real excellence, you expect detailed perfection because that's how you are. And the team drops the ball. How many days does that upset you? I always tell people wellness is, again, a lot. How much can you release? It's like, oh, my gosh, you think of all of my, you know, our teams, our clients, our customers. The odds of something going incredibly wrong every day are 100%. So every day, something goes wrong with it. My expectation of how that would be, I'm like, let me do my release technique right now. Let me remember, they don't think like me. They haven't been through the same things I have. They don't have the same obligations. Of course, they're different humans. Let me not get mad. Let me adjust. Let me be flexible. Let me coach, let me train, let me adapt, Let me work with them to get towards where we're trying to go, even if they have a different style. In other words, I have incredible wellness because I let people do their thing. If you've ever worked with me or you've ever been in my events or you've ever been backstage with me, I let people do their jam. I'm. I'm very comfortable with people living their life, being who they are. I just don't try to put my little clamp around them and make them do what I feel they have to do. You know, that's why I think it's easy for me to be around diverse people all around the world is I don't think they need to be like me. I Don't. I'm like, let them do their jam. You know, people say, well, but don't you have expectations of people? I'm like, oh, of course. Of course. But you can have expectations of people and not get thrown off when they continually don't meet them. Because I'm also, as Maya Angelou taught, believe them the first time. If they're like that, like, oh, that's. That's how they are. I don't have any hooked up. Like, oh, that's just recognition. That's how they are. Cool. I don't need to be around that. I don't need to be around to support that. And if they're angry and they're upset all the time, okay, I'm not gonna let that energy come into me. How that. Release. Practice. Releasing the tension, releasing the energy, releasing those thoughts that are causing me to be unwell.

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I also think that a big secret to this, your advanced strategy, if you will, at home and at work, is finding out, what do people love? If you think about everyone around you, what do they love? Do you know? What do they love? And how can you cheer that on or support that? Literally, today, somebody, a friend of mine, reached out about a situation going on in the world that he wanted support and was asking me for support. And it was a cause that I don't know that much about, but I know he loves this, and this is near and dear to his heart, and I can learn from it, and so I support it. I think of all the time, like, what? What is my wife love? Oh, she loves that. You know, that thing. She loves design. She loves that show. She loves these people. She loves this experience. Okay, okay. How can I serve that up? Because if you serve up what other people love or you honor it, respect it, cheer it on, support it in some way, the depth of that relationship becomes tangible. And now there's energy there because they feel the three things everybody needs to feel. They feel understood, they feel validated, they feel celebrated to live their own life. So if you can understand other people, if you can validate them, if you can celebrate what they like and what they love, their obsessions versus making them have to do what you do, life is so much easier. I'll tell you an example. Years ago, Denise and I started working together and we had a podcast at the time, HVX podcast. I think we did maybe like 10, 20 episodes, maybe. I can't remember what it was. And it was just super clear that this was not something that she loved. And we didn't love doing it really together the way that we thought we would. And it was like, let's call that. So we just ended it. Didn't worry about what people thought, didn't worry about the business, didn't worry about. It was like, oh, that's not something we love doing together. Let's not do that. There's things that I love in my life. Totally not her jam, Things that she loves. Totally not my jam. But we cheer it on, we support it, and it creates that depth and that closeness of relationship. And if you don't have that with other people, guess what? You don't get to complain. It's your job to have that difficult conversation. It's your job to bring it up, to make a plan, to work through it, even if that takes weeks or years to shift your Mutual behaviors in that relationship. Don't give up on the person just because they don't get you. Because guess what, it's not their job to get you. But if you want to have a graceful, deep, intimate, connected relationship, it's now time. What do they love? And how can I support that? How can I let them be their thing, let them fly their flag, be their weirdness, and cheer them on in whatever way that that makes sense because it makes them happy. What does your spouse, your partner, your coworkers love to do? You know, in my companies, I never am like, you have to be this role. I'm like, what do you like to do first? Always, like, what do you like? Well, I don't like this. I want to do that. I'm like, oh, well, let's try to figure out a plan to get you more towards that. And that's always been my thing. Oh, you like that? You want to do more of that? Okay. And that makes a team feel heard and seen and recognized. And if they complain and they don't like something, then it's like, oh, can I shift that for them? Because that's their vibe. You got to figure that out.

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