2 TIPS to Create meaningful, honest relationships!

Having personal resolve is crucial on your path to success, but you can’t walk that path on your own. Highly successful people always have others to inspire or mentor them along the way.

Here are 2 TIPS to Create Meaningful, Honest Relationships!

1-Building a support team chock-full of successful people can help you reach your goals.

One thing you can to do is to create a support group. You can do this by gathering a so-called mastermind group, a supportive circle of people with whom you can share ideas and challenges.

Consider identifying six people with whom you are close, and hold scheduled conferences or Skype calls where each person takes 15 minutes to pose questions. For you to get the most value from these sessions, each group member should excel at a skill you wish to learn, or have achieved a goal you covet.

For example, if you’re a small business owner, it might be advantageous to include one or two successful entrepreneurs from your industry in your group. Other professionals such as consultants, lawyers or investment bankers can also be of great help.

2-Support others, and they will support you in return. Create meaningful, honest relationships!

To get the most benefit out of your support network, you must first lay a solid foundation of honesty and appreciation to build meaningful relationships.
Telling the truth can be scary. But we must tell the truth if we are to create and foster our connections with others.

Consider the story of Jack Canfield and Larry Prince and their non-profit, Foundation for Self-Esteem.

The two men submitted a proposal to design a training program for job hunters for the Los Angeles County Office for Education. However, when they realized the restrictions of the program, they decided to inform the county officers that they couldn’t comply with the regulations, thus risking losing the competition and the $730,000 grant.
But because of their honesty, they actually ended up winning the competition!

In addition to honesty, appreciation of others is often undervalued in relationships. In a study of some 200 companies, employees rated appreciation as the number-one motivator of a list of ten motivational themes; managers and supervisors, however, ranked appreciation in eighth place.
It’s clear that we want to be more appreciated at work; so be sure you do your bit by showing appreciation for others.