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Harvey Mackay
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Develop strong friends, relationships to prosper
A newlywed own families. Grandchildren are a young man was blessing, but we can’t expect them to be sitting on the at our beck and call. And besides, your porch on a humid family will love you regardless of who day, sipping you are orwhatyou do. iced tea with Jobs/careers come and go. People his father. As he can’t do what they did physically when talked about adult theywereyoung.Parentspasson,butyou life, marriage, persevere. Colleagues forget the favors responsibilities you did. The race to achieve slows. and obligations, But true friends are always there, no the father matterhowlongorhowmanymilesaway thoughtfully they are. A friend is never more distant stirred the ice than the reach of a need, intervening in cubes in his glass your favor, waiting for you with open and castaclear,soberlookathis son. arms or in some way blessing your life.
“Never forget your friends,” he Love your parents, take care of your advised. “They will become more family,butkeep agroup ofgood friends. importantas you getolder. Regardless of My good friend Dale Brown, former howmuchyouloveyourfamily,youwill LSUbasketball coach,sentme this story, alwaysneedfriends.Remembertogoout anditremindedmeofafascinatingstudy withthemoccasionallyorkeepincontact by Harvard University that tracked the with themsomehow.” physical and emotional health of 700
What strange advice, thought the people. They followed these people and young man. I just entered the married tested them (e.g., blood samples, brain world. I am an adult and surely my wife scans) for75 years. and the family that we will start will be Here’s the primary conclusion: “The everything I need to make sense of my clearest message that we get from this life. 75-year study is this: Good relationships
Yet, he followed his father’s advice, keep us happier and healthier. Period,” kept in touch with his old friends and said Robert Waldinger, director of the made new friends along the way. Over Harvard Study ofAdultDevelopment. theyears,hebecameawarethathisfather The analysis showed a 50 percent knew whathe was talking about. Evenas increased likelihood of survival for time and nature affect a person, friends participants with stronger social are the bulwarks ofourlife. relationships. Put simply, if you have
Children grow up. When they healthy relationships, your chances of become independent, they begin their survival increase by 50 percent. “Social relationships, or the relative lackthereof,constituteamajorriskfactor THE JUNCTION Convenience Store • Bait for health –rivaling the effect of wellestablished health risk factors such as cigarette smoking, blood pressure, blood OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Hours: 6 AM to 10 PM lipids, stated obesity the three and physical activity,” authors ofthe study. Soft Serve Ice Cream • Pizzas Good relationships will help you Cold Spring Bakery • Schaefer’s Meats T-Shirts • Leanin’ Tree Gift Cards deal your with most life’s minor annoyances and challengingproblems.Without 320-285-2383 • Grey Eagle good relationships, you’ll have a hard
-By Harvey Mackay
time finding customers, making a sale, securing a job, hiring the rightemployee and having greatfriends.
As I like to say, you must“DigYour
Well Before You’re Thirsty,” which coincidentallyis thetitleofanetworking bookI wrote. Here is the mostimportant line in that entire book: IfI had to name the single characteristic shared by all the truly successful people I’ve met over a lifetime, I’d say it is the ability to create and nurture anetworkofrelationships.
Youcantakeallmy money! Youcan take all my factories! You can take all my land! But leave me my network of relationships, and I’ll be back to where
I was today in three to five shortyears.
It has served me every day ofmy life in ways Icouldneverhaveimagined.AndI am honored to be my friends’ go-to guy when they need a favor, a reference or someone to lean on.
If you want one year of prosperity, you grow grain. Ifyou want 10 years of prosperity, you grow trees. But if you want 100 years of prosperity, you grow relationships. With the coronavirus tippingtheworldupsidedown,onething will remain constant –the relationships we develop overalifetime.
Relationships matter.
Mackay’s Moral: In my entire career, I have never once heard a successful person say he orshe regretted putting time and energy into working on theirrelationships.
Reprinted with permission from nationally syndicated columnist Harvey
Mackay, author of the New York Times #1 bestseller “Swim With The Sharks
Without Being Eaten Alive,” “We Got
Fired!...And It’s the Best Thing That
Ever Happened to Us,” “The Mackay
MBA of Selling in the Real World,” and
“Use Your Head To Get Your Foot In The
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