This week I started reading this book by Jay Abraham. I don’t know what you’d call Jay’s title, but he falls somewhere between “super smart business coach” and “the guy who runs a business about starting businesses”. Regardless of your thoughts on those – Jay’s clearly very wise when it comes to business and personal relationships. I can’t say clearly enough that this $10 purchases is one of the better ones I’ve made.
I’ve come to be reminded in the course of this book, and events of today prior to writing this blog, that I’m pretty incredible at what I’d call “transactional relationships”.
I draw a very thick line between my relationships that exist primarily due to the exchange of money (whether be clients or coworkers) and those that don’t. Even with those that don’t, I will make you work extremely hard to get close to my true heart and emotions. I would argue I have less close friends than fingers on a single hand. With most of you I have a relationship with where we exchange money, platitudes, space, or simple ideas and call it friendship – but in reality it’s nothing but fragile and fleeting.
I think a lot of people might nod their heads and agree with this idea. Plenty of people, especially today where we’re all so simultaneously connected and disconnected, don’t have a lot of deep meaningful relationships. It’s kind of normal.
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