Making relationships a priority
Jules Radford
Finance Director @Endava | Finance Transformation, Senior Leadership, Strategic Insights
Relationships (every kind) make a real difference to our quality of life, and I was reminded of this on a recent business trip
I wanted to talk about?beliefs?and?identity, but before this, a few thoughts on relationships because if there is one thing I am learning a lot about at the moment, it is that relationships (every kind) make a real difference to our quality of life.?
I was travelling to St Johns, Newfoundland via Toronto to visit my amazing team, and my connection from Toronto to St John's was cancelled and I had an extra 30 hours in Toronto.?I was so thrilled (for me, not them!) when I realised that the others travelling ahead of me had also got stuck in Toronto and stayed in the same hotel.?
Had I been by myself I am pretty sure I would have mooched around the hotel for the next 30 hours, but because of my colleagues being there, we decided over breakfast to take the opportunity to hire an insanely large SUV and drive to Niagara Falls - making what could have been a rather annoying situation rather joyful (quote shamelessly stolen from one of my colleagues on this trip!).?It was also a lovely opportunity to get to know my colleagues so much better and I hope the feeling was mutual (!).
Relationship success
The only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to GIVE, and not a place that you go to TAKE??
4 phases that can destroy any relationship:
Taking action to improve and strengthen your relationships:
Try the following actionable insights to improve or rekindle your relationships.??We need to make our relationships one of the highest priorities in our life - otherwise they will take a back seat to all or any of the other urgent things that happen during the day - and the emotional intensity will drift away (now I really am talking directly to me - this is most certainly a development area for me)?
Beliefs
So, onto beliefs….beliefs?- teach us how to feel and what to do, they impact how we react with people e.g. if we fundamentally believe someone loves us then even if they react in a non-loving way, our belief over rides and we give them some slack
Unfortunately, the opposite is also true - if our partner / friend doesn’t believe that we love them then no matter what we say or do will not change anything, until they change their belief in us.???
Beliefs around scarcity or abundance can also determine our generosity of time, resources, spirit?
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Identity
And then moving onto the trump card -?identity?- what we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability or intellect - it is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are. Do you remember the Henry Ford quote from the first session?“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right”-??that is what this is all about?
WE define ourselves by who we are and who we are not.?Identity is the beliefs that we use to define our own individuality, what makes us unique - good, bad or indifferent - from other individuals.??
Identity is NOT defined by our experiences but by our?interpretation?of our experiences - identity is nothing more than the decisions we’ve made about who we are.?Our capability is fairly constant, but how much of it we use depends upon the identity we have of ourself?
The kind of person other people perceive us to be controls their responses to us - sometimes, after making a positive change (active Recovery), we often allow others in our environment who have not changed their image of us, to anchor our own emotions and beliefs back into our old behaviour and identifies - (who are the people you spend most time with and are they empowering or disempowering?)?
We all need to remember that we have tremendous power to influence our identity?- but you will have to wait until next week for find out how!
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