What's the Caliber of Your Relationships?

An invitation to explore your closest relationships, and perhaps discover something new that you appreciate about them.

Earlier this week I shared about how ultimate success for leaders relies on the caliber of their relationships. In this follow-up to that post I am inviting you to explore your meaningful relationships. Reflection offers opportunities to refresh perspectives, clear misconceptions, and embrace how things really are.

Ask yourself: what's the caliber of my relationships? 

• Think about the 7-8 people you spend the most time with. What's their individual and collective impact on your life? 

• What relationships in your life sustain and nurture your highest, best self? 

• What relationships, beyond other people, restore and strengthen you? Perhaps it's your relationship with a beloved pet, music, art, a garden plot, a particular grove of trees, a stretch of ocean beach. Perhaps it's those you meet along your meditative path. 

These relationships offer us essential sustenance when the inevitable frailties of other humans lets us down.