play and focus on intention
Friends make life better
Work is an easy place to meet potential friends because:
- you spend a lot of time at work
- makes the work place more fun
- improves job performance due to access of information and networking
Challenges:
- Need to change the boundaries of the relationship
- Navigate office complexities
1. BE CHOOSY
Choose 1 or2 people: have similar interests/ similar lives/
laugh at the same things [Karl Staib]
2. TEST THE WATERS:
With lunch/morning tea/ getting outside the office/ walk to a nearby restaurant
3. THEN TRY IT AGAIN
Intimacy is built by repeated proximity: having lunch every Wednesday/ grabbing a coffee after Tuesday’s meeting
4. PLAY TO YOUR INTERESTS
Suggest an outside-work get – together, doing what you both are passionate about
For example: a food festival/ a meditation group
5. THEN BRING IN OTHERS
Invite your spouse or non – work friends to join you in your regular after work get – together
This will knit the ties even more
Work may change but the friends will remain
Laura Vanderkam
Soundtrack playing – Time Off – Track 1 – Meditation with Bells – Master Charles
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