Ships, ships, and more ships!

Ships are hard. What do I mean by ships? Friendships, relationships, colleague ships, Any. Any type of ship that deals with other human beings are incredibly difficult. And what I found is the greatest common denominator for me is my energy. Bear with me when I say this. You know, we can talk about boundaries, yes and no's, and all the other things, but I always look at it as, is this an energy win or an energy suck? Am I on the phone? And when I'm talking to somebody on the phone, it's constantly like, I am their therapist and I'm taking in all of this information and it's heavy and it's deep and it's always to the point where it's like, oh my gosh, like, you get off the phone, it's like, I can't take another energy kill like that, right?

And then there's individuals that you meet that are always energy uplifting. They bring your energy up, you have coffee with them, you get a text from them, you have a conference call and you immediately go, wow, I feel good from that. So I encourage you to go back to the relationships that stress you out that you struggle with and just ask this simple question. Is it giving me energy or is it taking from my already depleted energy tank that's already low. And even if you are full and you have a full tank of energy, what you'll find is you will go to the next thing, you'll have the next deal at work, the next thing with your family, whatever that might be, and you'll immediately go, man, I feel heavy walking into this.

And why is because it's the relationship that you just got out of the communication, the text, the call, the zoom, the whatever, and it drains the living daylights out of you. Ask yourself, is it filling my bucket or is it depleting the energy tank that I already have, which is low? Think about that. Think about that today with your relationships, friendships, colleagueships, work partnerships, all of it. Take a step back. Filling my bucket. Taken away. Easy peasy. Once you start going that direction and just looking at it that way, you're going to start saying, I don't know if this is good for me anymore.

When you get to that point, you can start making some different decisions, but just ask that question first. All right, have a good day, everybody. This has been something that's really worked for me and I encourage you to try this as well. Bye bye.