Relationships are at the heart of everything. Think about it—our lives are made up of connections: to people, to experiences, to ideas, even to the things we can’t see. Just as our personal relationships bring us joy, challenge us to grow, and teach us patience, our professional relationships influence how we lead, collaborate, and innovate. And it doesn’t stop there. We also hold relationships with ourselves, food, money, technology, and even time. Each relationship shapes the way we experience the world.
When we zoom out, we see that relationships are not separate compartments. Notice the way you approach every relationship—whether it’s how you build trust with your team, how you view abundance and scarcity with money, or how time occurs to you.
Below are three practical steps to strengthen your relationships across every dimension:
Notice the Patterns
Pay attention to recurring themes in your relationships. Do you fuel your business but put your self last in refueling yourself? Do you approach deadlines with intentionality or live into “there’s never enough time.”
Reframe the Relationship
Instead of thinking of food, money, or time as “things” you must manage, imagine them as partners in your life. How would you relate differently if money was a trusted advisor, or if time was an ally instead of an enemy?
Align with Your Wiring
When you understand your unique wiring, you can align your relationships to match your strengths. When a client who procrastinated on goal setting, we looked at her relationship to goal setting and her human wiring. She procrastinated because her relationship to goal setting was that it took a long time. She also was wired as lower on the patience scale and naturally thrived in an unstructured work environment. When I showed her how to develop a one-page Business Blueprint with monthly benchmarks so she could see the short-term wins, she was not only elated, but it shifted her relationship to goal setting.
At the heart of every breakthrough is a relationship—whether it’s the trust you build with a colleague, the clarity you find in how you invest your resources, or the way you align your environment with how you naturally execute it. When you bring awareness and intention to all your relationships, you don’t just improve one area—you elevate your entire experience of life and work.
Where in your own life would having a transformed relationship elevate your experience of life and work?
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