Cultivating Friendships

People survive and thrive through our social connections, and our relationships and friendships can bring us a lot of happiness! Yet it does take effort to cultivate those friendships, and to connect with people. Let’s take some time this month to do that work deliberately, and to celebrate all of the benefits that our friendships can bring! This challenge offers a chance to build resilience through strengthening our social connections.

Daily:
Connect with a friend! (This certainly includes partners and family, if you consider them friends.)

To Do:
Surprise a friend with something awesome!
Make time to hang out with someone you like but rarely see.
Share your experience in the Living Vividly Guild!

Reflection:
I take a great deal of joy and satisfaction in my friendships, and this was a wonderful reminder both to celebrate and enjoy those connections and to remember that they do take some deliberate cultivation to thrive. I feel particularly lucky that I get to see many of the people I care about on a daily or weekly basis, and many of the others are only a quick text away.

(Perhaps they will join me for parfait!)