A short excerpt from a YouTube video by Jim Johnson where the speaker reflects on the central role relationships have played in his personal, professional, and spiritual growth. He reports that major ‘‘aha’’ moments and career/personal advancements were tied to relationships, and outlines a current intention to audit, deepen, or explore relationships to foster future growth.
The last component to this that I thought of is how much I thrive on and value relationships. I've been doing this for a long time without realizing that I had that much value placed on relationships. Turns out that when I take a little bit of an audit of my life, the number, some of the greatest aha moments, the greatest levels of growth, the greatest experiences, the greatest advancements in my career, my personal life, my spiritual life, all had a relationship tied to them. And so if my past is any indicator of what I should be doing going forward, then if I want more aha moments, if I want to grow, if I want to get better, if I want to expand, I should probably focus on the relationships around me in order to do that. So I can tell you that that's been part of my journey and part of the journey I'm on right now. Some of you watching this have probably been reached out to me because I'm looking at the relationships I have, wanting to know how can I grow those relationships or make them better. And then there's relationships that I maybe don't have that I want to investigate and dig into a little bit and see what's there. And I might find something and I might not, but that's okay.
