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The Most Business Is 100% About Better Relationships.
Business is 100% about relationships.
“He doesn’t talk to us anymore, childhood friends,” I heard as a child. It was said with bitterness and disdain. I decided, my subconscious decided, to stay in the environment familiar to me in childhood, not to be different in order not to be excluded. Being excluded from a community has been and remains one of the harshest punishments.
That was a learned mindset, which did me a lot of harm.
I have no interest in having relationships with just anyone. That is until I started my own company. It took me some time, and lost business opportunities, to understand one simple thing: I am the sum of the people I interact with.
I am the sum of the people I do business with, I am the sum of the people I have relationships with.
You can’t be a “nobody” employee at some tiny LLC and have relationships with successful entrepreneurs. You can’t be a big businessperson and your list of friends is limited to the colleagues you played basketball with in high school.
