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Why Connections with Others Matter

Spending time with people and sharing moments helps us build strong friendships and relationships.

When we connect with others, we feel supported, loved, and understood. These moments teach us important things like caring for others (empathy) and being kind (compassion).

Why Are These Connections Important?

They help us feel happy and safe.

We learn from each other and grow as people.

They make life more fun and meaningful!

Building friendships and sharing stories with others can make a big difference in your life and theirs. It’s like planting seeds of kindness and love that grow into something beautiful! 🌱❤️

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Connections: The Golden Thread of Life

Connections are what make life meaningful. There are two big kinds:

Spiritual connections (feeling close to something bigger than us).

Human connections (building friendships and relationships with others).

We often connect with family, friends, or people who share our hobbies and values. How we respond to these connections depends on past experiences. Were we respected and accepted, or ignored and hurt?

As kids, we learn from adults how to trust or avoid people. By the time we grow up, we have a “map” in our brain that helps us navigate relationships. Sometimes, bad experiences make this map tricky to read.

When life gets overwhelming, it’s good to pause and reflect. Talking to a trusted friend can help us see clearly and grow stronger connections.

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Extract from: Owning our Struggles by Minaa B. 2023

The power of connectedness

It is the way we connect with one another that change happens, both personally and in our communities, allowing us to get ahead instead of always feeling left behind and disconnected.

In a job market that is succumbing to rapid automation, the value of human touch, connection, and understanding cannot be overstated.

Human connecting

A relationship based on shared living and not just storytelling through social media.

Author's Opinion 2

Extract from book: It's on me by Sara Kuburic 2023

How we understand life, is how we live it.

How we understand our Self is how we be(come) it.

Authenticity:

Authenticity is not your given or preconceived nature (although that sounds great), rather , authenticity is the process of deciding and creating who you are. Authentiity is a way of existing that is achieved by accepting the burden of responsability, choice, and freedom. Authenticity requires participation.

Freedom:

Freedom is the abiity you have to make decitions. You can say yes or, alternatively you can say no. We always have the freedom of choice. In most cases we are free to act, and in some extreme and opressive ciscumstances, we are left with only the freedom to create meaning.

Responsibility:

Responcibility is taking ownership of your decitions and actions. You are the author of your life. Your existance always come back to you. All that you are is connected to a world that constantly asks you to engage with it.

Meaning:

To search for meaning is to see and understand what something is - or what you are- here for. It is finding purpose and value in your experiences. Instaed of asking "What should I ask of life?" re-center by asking "What is life asking of me?"

Author's Opinion 3

Book: Level Up by Rod Dial 2023

Goals = direction + action + time

The fact that you have not been taking action in the past doesn't matter. What matters right now is where you are right now and where you want to go.

The direction you are heading is more important than the speed you're going.

The body, business or relationship you want isn't going to be achieved as quickly as a Google search

Life can either be easy now and hard later or hard now and easy later. You choose.

Direction: Journal prompts

What are your goals regarding your destination?

What action do you need to take, no matter how small, to start your journey towards that destination?

What do you need to stop, start, and continue doing to get there?

In what ways will life be hard now and easy later when it comes to achieving those goals?

What, if anything, do you need to give up in order to achieve those goals?

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Updated: November 2023