Idea
If you’re happy in your career and think everything’s going well for you, chances are you feel like you don’t need to or don’t want to network and grow relationships. It’s partly because of the feeling of, “who has time for that? I’ve got 99 other things to do.” And partly because networking can seem like a nebulous to-do that’s on your list along with “write a book someday” and it’s the last priority.
The better strategy is to reengage your network in a way that’s systemized and only takes three to four minutes per day. You won’t even have to do it on weekends (unless you want to).
Example
Grab your phone. Go into your texting app and scroll all the way down to the bottom. You’ll find some people that you haven’t talked to in maybe a few years years. Send them a quick message saying something along the lines of:
“Hey Tim,” and be sure to use their name so they don’t think it’s a mass text.
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