Meaningful connections require your TIME and EFFORT ‼️#shorts #datingadvice #datingcoach #dating

19 May 2025 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, the speaker reflects on his personal journey from treating dating as a casual side activity while focusing on building a business, to realizing that meaningful romantic connections demand the same level of time and effort as professional endeavors. He recounts how, after leaving corporate life to chase his dreams, he initially believed success in business would automatically bring success in dating. A pivotal encounter in Koh Samui, Thailand, where he formed a genuine friendship, revealed that surface‑level dating—moving from place to place—cannot yield deep, lasting relationships. The speaker concludes that to achieve in‑depth, meaningful connections, one must invest effort in dating with the same dedication applied to building a business.

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Can you kind of like take me back to where you were before? Like what changes have you seen since we started working together? To me, like I always enjoyed dating on the side, but getting out of corporate and going after my dreams, I focused very heavily on that. Like I kind of shut everything else out and was like, I just need to focus on being quote unquote successful. If I can do that, then the other stuff will come as a byproduct. And it all felt okay because I was building my business, I was traveling, and I was dating, I was meeting all these different people. And it really wasn't until we met in Koh Samui, Thailand, and we started chatting and becoming friends, I kind of realized it takes a lot more work than that. Sure, you can go through, like, and that's cool, right, to go through life and be surface level with dating, going from place to place. But if you want something more in-depth and meaningful, you have to put as much effort into the dating side as you do into the business side.