lationships and there doesn’t seem to be anything we can do about it.

You know that all business is relationships and so are all organizations and communities - but what can we do about them? How do we build them, how do we strengthen them? Even if we knew how, doing

I Never Noticed

My father was the glue that held my connection to a hundred or more relatives together and since he passed away, my family has become smaller and smaller for me. Pictures have disappeared, replaced occasionally by emails and new names. And I never noticed. The branches of my relationship tree prune themselves. And I am diminished.

Sadly, that is normal and usual, part of the constantly shifting patterns of life. It seems we only pay attention to our relationships when they are very close and breaking or broken. The rest we take for granted and we let them drift.

But they, too, are subject to the laws of thermodynamics. They, like everything else in the universe, drift inexorably from order to disorder. Some relationships get more and more tenuous and then, like very remote points of light, they blink out. And we don’t notice that our life gets somehow dimmer.

Some relationships get increasingly more difficult. It’s always ‘their fault’ and we wish they would disappear. But the quality of our life is measured by the quality of our relationships and there doesn’t seem to be anything we can do about it.

You know that all business is relationships and so are all organizations and communities - but what can we do about them? How do we build them, how do we strengthen them? Even if we knew how, doing

iced. The branches of my relationship tree prune themselves. And I am diminished.

Sadly, that is normal and usual, part of the constantly shifting patterns of life. It seems we only pay attention to our relationships when they are very close and breaking or broken. The rest we take for granted and we let them drift.

But they, too, are subject to the laws of thermodynamics. They, like everything else in the universe, drift inexorably from order to disorder. Some relationships get more and more tenuous and then, like very remote points of light, they blink out. And we don’t notice that our life gets somehow dimmer.

Some relationships get increasingly more difficult. It’s always ‘their fault’ and we wish they would disappear. But the quality of our life is measured by the quality of our relationships and there doesn’t seem to be anything we can do about it.

You know that all business is relationships and so are all organizations and communities - but what can we do about them? How do we build them, how do we strengthen them? Even if we knew how, doing

The rest we take for granted and we let them drift.

But they, too, are subject to the laws of thermodynamics. They, like everything else in the universe, drift inexorably from order to disorder. Some relationships get more and more tenuous and then, like very remote points of light, they blink out. And we don’t notice that our life gets somehow dimmer.

Some relationships get increasingly more difficult. It’s always ‘their fault’ and we wish they would disappear. But the quality of our life is measured by the quality of our relationships and there doesn’t seem to be anything we can do about it.

You know that all business is relationships and so are all organizations and communities - but what can we do about them? How do we build them, how do we strengthen them? Even if we knew how, doing

e points of light, they blink out. And we don’t notice that our life gets somehow dimmer.

Some relationships get increasingly more difficult. It’s always ‘their fault’ and we wish they would disappear. But the quality of our life is measured by the quality of our relationships and there doesn’t seem to be anything we can do about it.

You know that all business is relationships and so are all organizations and communities - but what can we do about them? How do we build them, how do we strengthen them? Even if we knew how, doing

lationships and there doesn’t seem to be anything we can do about it.

You know that all business is relationships and so are all organizations and communities - but what can we do about them? How do we build them, how do we strengthen them? Even if we knew how, doing it never occurs as something urgent. After all, life changes; so do relationships. These, too, shall pass.

This is why I’m a coach. Yes, I help fix what’s broken, but I also build and nurture what we take for granted. It makes a real difference in the quality of your commitments – and in the productivity of your life. I am not a wall full of self-help books. I say, “There is no You, there’s only You And. I make the And better.”