Avoid the Relationship Sinkhole ? G P S For Your Life

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There you are driving along the networking highway, gleefully distributing your business cards. At this same time the customized vacuum scoop attached to your vehicle is sweeping lots of other people?s business cards. Your invention then stacks the cards and feeds them into your card scanner so names, emails, phone #s are entered into your CRM database. Life is sweet.

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This may be what you are doing, but it needs a lot more than just a distribution and collection process. Too often, contacts are made and then never ever followed up through any form communications ? text, email, social, and even voice.

This sinkhole is where relationship opportunities stagnate. You would have accomplished more if you read a book, watched a baseball game, cooked a good meal or even gazed at the stars (only at night from a dark location).

For whatever you want to do next, cultivating existing and new relationships is essential. Here are a few Habit Ideas that you may want to embrace:

1. When you meet someone new, follow up within 48 hours
2. Find ways to update friends and contacts with what you are doing
3. When a person wants to connect, they will respond to your communication
4. When a person does not want to connect, they will not respond, connect with another
5. Move out and away from any sinkhole as nothing good happens down in a hole

Sinkholes show up on many roads. Sometimes there is no warning and other times you can see them in the distance. The best idea is to avoid the sinkhole and stay on the road surface. Falling in and then climbing out of a hole takes energy, effort and most often delays your journey to wherever you were going prior to this disruption.

Richard Oppenheim

Your GPS Navigator ? ready to help you avoid sinking into a hole

Source: http://gpsfyl.com/2012/08/22/avoid-the-relationship-sinkhole/

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