Top 10 Personal Rituals for Stress-Free Relationship Building
I started reading Keith Ferrazzi’s book “Never Eat Alone” about 18 months ago and its one of the most impactful books I have read in a long time. The purpose of this book is how to better build personal and professional relationships, networking and enjoying life. I highly recommend it and to prove the point, I have bought this book and sent it to probably ten different people (friends, colleagues, clients) I know. I am now on his second book, who’s got your back, all about your support network.
So far so good. I will review in a later post.
Posted on December 1st, 2009 by Keith Ferrazzi
Did you know that 66.3% of people who are happy in their job are confident in their stress management skills?
In a recent post on time management, I asked for your favorite rituals for stress-free relationship building. They were all great! Here are my ten favorites:
10. Dog walking. That’s prime pinging time for me, working from a home office. The dog doesn’t mind. – John Kerr
9. Network at the gym. – Elizabeth Rhody
8. Every 3-4 months, organize informal drinks as a way to connect with people – but in a very time efficient manner. You buy appetizers, everyone buys their own drinks. – Sital
7. Split your lunch hour in two: Eat with one person and go for a walk with another. It gets in a little extra exercise and many people are happy to move around in the middle of the day. – Alizabeth Van Wieren
6. Make time to pray, worship, and listen to music often to help keep yourself energized. – Evie Denis
5. Create a blog to use as a reference library. In that blog I collect links and articles that I want to save for future reference. I also share the blog content with other artists. Not having to dig for links saves a lot of time. – Marie Kazalia
4. Give up TV! – Maria
3. Identify one “most important task” each day, and then devote the first hour of the day to that task — before checking email or doing anything else. – Matt Perman
2. Sports junkies: use TV game time to follow up on e-mails, and schedule calls/mtgs with people. – SCOR
1. Get to appointments at least 15 minutes early and use those minutes for pinging, returning emails and social media. You can get a lot done with focus! – Juli Monroe