25. Relationships
Life Lesson 25 of 33
Get yourself in a network of sales people long enough and you’ll hear talk about the importance of the “R”.
“The difference between a contact and a contract is the R, and it stands for Relationship.”
But relationships aren't valuable because of a mere value exchange, they are core to the human experience.
As the poet Phillip James Bailey wrote,
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest:
Lives in one hour more than in years do some
Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end,
Beginning, mean, and end to all things -- God.
The dead have all the glory of the world.
It is not the people, places, and things themselves that provide pleasure or pain but our relationship with them.
What originally drew me to naming my podcast Strong Com Podcast was the root word itself; Com means “with, together”.
Because relationships are so core to how we do everything, I find it important to include it as one of my 33 life lessons, if nothing else as a reminder that these 33 years of life would be much different without them.
Lord willing there's at least 33 more to learn from and look forward to.
“We must do our job well, not because it serves our interest, but because it serves the interests of others.We do not live in this world alone.” - Admiral Mcraven
“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things.” - Mother Teresa
