Attention to a Relationship focus

Motivational experts in the last century proposed a timeless and sustaining theme in the study of motivation: human beings throughout the world, share fundamental needs. On a continuum from physiological and survival needs to reaching to realize full potential, the central element threading throughout is the need for affiliation. Human beings have a need to be in relationship.

What is relationship? Simply put, relationship is a flow of feeling's.

This flow of feeling's may be between you and a higher source, between you and nature, between you and your environment, or between you and another person. In this flow, an opportunity exists to experience connection. With another there is an opportunity for individual and mutual growth and support. We, as human beings, affect and are affected by others, help and are helped. Individuals have the opportunity to reach individual potential far beyond what they are able to do on their own, and to co-create when truly engaged in relationship.

Attention to a relationship focus takes this premise to the next level - All of us need enhanced relationship focus to maximize our full potential!

How does this need for relationship play out in life?

Let's think about this together - A person is drawn into relationship based on the joy of interacting with another person who shares a similar view of the world and incorporates fun, ease, energy, reliability, and creativity into the interaction. When these characteristics exist in business relationships, overall satisfaction is enhanced while helping each other obtain financial and professional success and enjoyment.

Creating personal and dynamic success in all aspects of our lives, requires attention to building our relationship skills.

The 21st Century is an unprecedented time. The pace of change is so rapid that working at multiple levels with a wide range of partners and with a multitude of associations is paramount.

The biggest challenge most people face is the ability to successfully build the kinds of relationships necessary in order to have the kind of success to which they aspire.

Here, for your consideration are underlying thinking and guiding principles:

* The 21st century calls for self-knowledge and directing one's own life. Hence our number one guiding principle is to take leadership in your life's direction. Consciously and constantly choose the direction of your life toward that which is most important to you.

* To effectively align your choices, your time, and your energy, you must live purposefully. To do this, you must know your life purpose.

* To be successful in building relationship with others, you must first start with building a successful relationship with yourself. Self-knowledge is the underpinning that helps you persist in the direction of relationship success.

* Multiple visions for your life exist. Futurists predict that in the 21st century, each of us will have many careers. Identifying and defining your life purpose is the foundation; clearly aligning your career visions to your life purpose will create the vitality that will help you sense and seize business partnerships and relationships in the now and in the future.

* A clear distinction between NetBeing and Networking exists. Networking provides a situational focus to gain competitive personal success and for individuals to connect with others to accomplish individual project tasks. In NetBeing, individual purposes overlap and a joint focus fosters mutual and multiple successes. NetBeing transforms networking contacts to a relationship focus through person-to-person connection. NetBeing links creativity, resources, and ideas, people-to-people in mutually supportive, rewarding, and purposeful relationships over a lifetime.

* Creating success for others along the way takes on a life of its own! Through helping others, tangible and intangible rewards create magical and mysterious outcomes for all parties.

* What you have traditionally done to satisfy people is not enough. Individuals want a deeper connection! New ways of showing up today and beyond must be continuously considered.

So as I get ready to take on the day, my question to you is the following:

What are you doing to built out deeper relationships with the people your meeting and the people you currently know?