I’m lagging on my fourth pillar 😕

I haven’t really been hitting the “social renaissance” … otherwise known as relationships … as much as I should.

To be quite frank, I haven’t really felt like it with leaving early for work and getting home after 6:00pm at night.

I’m lucky if I hit my exercise goals each night.

So taking the time to build my network has fallen by the wayside, to-date.

But one morning last week, an email newsletter from Nick Gray hit my inbox.

I like his style as his emails only come once in a while and they usually talk about meeting people and enjoying the interactions.

In his latest email he talked about the concept of increasing your “surface area” … something he in turn was quoting from Cate Hall.

The main points of the concept are:

✅ Highly successful people experiment frequently

✅ Meeting 1-2 strangers a day is ideal … 1-2 strangers a week is too slow

✅ Operate from genuine curiosity

✅ Give generously before expecting returns

✅ Host regular, low-stake events

✅ Expect awkward beginnings

This concept resonates with me so much that I’m doing what any self-respecting person who wants to get ahead does and I’m stealing it. 😬

But first I have to think about HOW to meet people.

I feel ridiculous for even mentioning it but I feel with the troubles I’ve experienced over recent years, I’ve lost the ability to initiate conversations.

And that annoys me. 😠

If I can’t even initiate a conversation then I can’t sell myself and I can’t progress.

So the onus is on me now to prepare a plan to put me in a position where I can’t NOT meet people.

Like many things in life, if you want to achieve something of importance to you, you first have to contrive the best environment that allows you to an achieve that goal.

After all, we all have to take some risks in life.

Time to put on my thinking cap! 🤔