Think Create - Leon Grey's Blog

This is a quote from the movie, “Six Degrees of Separation”. Personally I have never seen the movie myself but I like the quote. My motivation to write this is because of what happened last night. I was on facebook and I found an old primary school friend, actually, we may not have been friends but I suppose we may have spoken once in a while. Here is the interesting thing, 20+ years has gone by and I see this person and quickly jump into a conversation like we had been best friends for years, yet during school we may have spoken to each other a total of 1 hour.

Where am I getting at with all this? Well, I would like to have a chat with you about friendships, people and your network. I must say all my close school friendships are still there, but because of the stages of our lives we don’t speak much. On the other hand I make great friends regularly who are great people with different backgrounds and personalities. For some years now I was quite lonely, my old school friends and I were slowly drifting apart and I found it difficult to make new ones, my refuge was the Internet. At the age of 28 I joined a property investing group and suddenly found the true power of networking! These people had the same interests as me and I was finally making new friends!

TIP: If you are looking to make new friends/build your network, then join groups which have similar interests to you.

Here’s a question for you. How many of you really know about your existing friends? I mean really know about them? I’m aiming more at the guys with this one because we tend not to open up our feelings to anyone. I used to do it, but it was hard because my mates aren’t the open up type of blokes, but it is always good to try know your friends at a deeper level.

All these new people I meet, have a totally different history with different experiences in life and they are like the quote says, “a new door to a different world”. It interests me incredibly to hear about the experiences and life of another person, especially when I am walking the same path.

TIP: If you want to make new friends and want to build your the social skills, then read this book. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie.

Success and Happiness!