Category: relationships

Insights on Friendship from Iris Murdoch

Making friends might come easier to some people than others, but in general, we all use the same criteria for forming relationships. We are drawn to people who share our interests, or who we simply like and admire. Once we make friends, we tend to hold them in high esteem. We speak positively about our…


Want Amazing Emotional Intelligence? Watch These 3 Key Areas

By Brendan P. Keegan Relationships are everything when it comes to providing an enjoyable customer or work experience that breeds trust and loyalty. But you can’t form these relationships if you aren’t tapping into your emotional intelligence. Part of emotional intelligence is being self-aware and intelligently managing your own emotions. The other side of the…


When COVID Threatens Your Relationship

The pandemic has massively disrupted normal life, creating conflict and suffering in innumerable ways. This much we know. But what I didn’t know, or expect, was how much disruption and the particular kind of conflict the pandemic would create in marriages and long-term relationships. For the first year of the pandemic, couples actually managed well….


Sole to Soul: Mending Our Treasures, Repairing Ourselves

“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.” Some of us still practice the frugality of that New England proverb. We wear a favorite sweatshirt until it’s falling apart, we keep our fingers crossed and hope our 10-year-old pickup truck has another year or two of life, we patch up a…


Want Strong Business Relationships? Avoid These 3 Mistakes

By Brendan P. Keegan Whatever kind of business you have, people—be they customers, workers, partners, mentors, etc.—are the heart of it. The relationships you have with them determine how productive you can be and how much growth you can achieve. Leaders are starting to understand this, but they still fumble when it comes to building strong connections….


7 Timeless Tips for Connecting and Building Relationships at Conferences

An important part of honing our skills as business professionals is becoming better at meeting new people and building real relationships. The more we invest in practicing engaging with others effectively—the more natural our ability to build relationships, becomes. We then look forward to the process of building relationships and find genuine happiness in the process. Our opportunity set…


These 6 Words Will Open Thousands of Doors for You

Article by Francisco García Pimentel Every person is a world. Life at work, in business and even in the family is full of complex relationships, where each person has their own agenda, their own history, and particular dimensions. The projects that go ahead are not always the best; And those people who are right are not…


Free Your Mind From Wanting People to Be a Certain Way

We want the world to be the way we want it. Unfortunately, reality always has different plans, and people behave in less than ideal ways.


The Brilliant Tribe

The human body’s sophisticated response to stress is nothing short of a miracle. But the reality is that we overachiever stress junkies spend quite a bit of time being “plugged in” and in fight-or-flight mode, maneuvering strategically between one highly pressurized situation to the next. It’s like a time bomb. Most people have heard of…


After a Year of Zoom Meetings, We’ll Need to Rebuild Trust Through Eye Contact

The pandemic has exacerbated an already troubling trust deficit across political, economic, and other demographic divides. Research shared just before the pandemic’s onset uncovered that millennials are reluctant to trust government, business leaders, corporations, social and mass media, or even traditional social institutions. Meanwhile, a recent Canadian survey found that half of respondents believe business…