Relationships

You might wonder, for a financial website, why do we talk about relationship topics so much? The answer is relationships are one of the most important aspects of our lives that influence our health, happiness, and in many ways, our success.

I have had relationship challenges all my life, as everyone does also, but the better I have got at mastering them, the better I have done at running my businesses too. After all, your business is all about your team and your team consists of relationships. Communication, emotions, motivation, company culture, team spirit, loyalty, love, fear, trust, honesty, personalities, people’s strengths and weaknesses, learning, training, growing, dealing with people’s personal lives, person relationships, health, sense of purpose, hopes, dreams, mission in life, and literally everything else. Relationships are intertwined in every aspect of business.

But also, why are we in business anyway?  For money, purpose, security, freedom, survival, etc? Everyone has their own reasons, but essentially, we do what we do to try to be happy. So relationships are directly wired into both our happiness (or lack of) centers and are at the root of business success (or failure) as well.

In short, relationships are critical to our success and happiness. Therefore, we will dive deep.

Enjoy!

Relationships
When Labeling a Relationship as Toxic is Toxic 

I just have a very small point to make, but one that rarely gets attention these days, and I feel it needs to be addressed: the overuse of the word “toxic” when describing relationships. With the proliferation of YouTube and the countless self-proclaimed gurus capitalizing on “The Algorithm,” we now see an overabundance of content […]