90% of everything you will do in life, business, and in any other profession will require some level of relationship.
Think about it.
As I go through the day working in an unprivileged middle school on the North Side of Houston, I am reminded of how privileged I was going to school in Louisiana.
By privileged, I had everything I needed for school, the teachers had everything they needed for their lesson plans, classrooms were organized and straightforward, no technology to depend on, and students in the school actively participated in extracurricular activities.
Nevertheless, I mentioned a thousand times how building relationships is the most important thing you can learn.
However, relationship building is not taught in schools.
First, you, as an individual, must know yourself and have a belief system.
Whether that belief system comes from your parents, grandparents (because some kids are being raised by their grandparents), and the environment/culture you are surrounded with.
The corps set of values helps individuals connect with other people because, as the research points out, we (human beings) are social species that rely on trust and cooperation to survive and thrive.
We are bounded by, connected to, and drawn to people who believe what we believe.
Even in grade school, we are drawn to kids who look like us and are interested in things we are interested in, such as video games, cars, toys, etc…
So, the interesting thing about grade school is, it is an institution where several different kids from all different backgrounds, belief systems, different personalities, and cultures come together in order to grow in education/learning and training.
How do teachers get students to build relationships with each other?
That is what I’m trying to figure out as I go through my day in this unprivileged middle school, where kids will NEVER show fear, weakness, or snitch on someone else.
Middle schoolers are in the phase of trying to figure out who they are; yet, teachers are being told to have good relationships with them, and essentially, I’m saying kids should be learning how to build relationships with each other.
This is not an overnight process, because the process starts with knowing how pride and ego work.
And the remedy is to learn how to be humble and practice self-discipline.
Being humble and practicing self-discipline is something many people struggle with; yet, these attributes are essential to building relationships with others.
If you are not humble you are not willing to listen to others’ ideas/opinions.
If you are not self-disciplined you will never (or it will be challenging) for you to accomplish goals. For you will be lazy, procrastinate, and become not dependable.
Nonetheless, leave a comment about what you believe it takes to build relationships.