Your Network: What Is Your Worth?
We hear the term used a lot in professional circles, but how does networking enrich our lives? Coach Elix discusses how your network can increase your self-worth with his guest and husband, Steven F. Macek, on this episode of Get a G.R.I.P. with Coach Elix.
Steven F. Macek Explores Why Your Network Increases Your Authentic Worth
As a co-host of the Get a G.R.I.P. podcast, a lawyer, and a medium, Steven F. Macek has unique insights on how networking can transform your identity, worth, and community. Like most people, three areas might rule your interpersonal connections: professional, social, and personal.
“Saint” Steven states that every person is energy. Therefore, each area of your network impacts your energy quality and levels. Thus, your network value goes beyond physical connections, feeding and influencing your words, actions, and efforts.
Networking Offers Personal and Professional Freedom
Steven further explores how negative connections in your network can direct you away from success. “Their energy is going to seep into your energy, no matter which way you look at it.” Such connections can curtail your sense of freedom and self-worth, setting you up for failure.
Coach Elix adds that the negative energy you absorb from others becomes your personal brand. Thus, you inadvertently allow your network to determine whether you are worthy of success, happiness, and fulfillment.
Your Body, Mind, and Spirit Are Worthy of a Community
Navigating negative or exhausting people can leave you drained. However, you can still love them and maintain your relationship with them by:
Limiting your contact with them as needed.
Building a positive spirit to soften the blow of the exhausting energy.
Mentally preparing for visits and conversations beforehand.
Although you must use discretion when choosing worthy network members, you should still open yourself up to people with new insights, challenges, and life experiences. They can feed your self-worth, internal courage, and adaptability.
Robin Sharma wisely stated that a person never rises higher than their closest colleagues. Networking for success begins by building relationships with others you perceive as higher than you who can set you up for success. Steven discusses how he stopped associating with a law school associate with whom he became close.
After three years of friendship, he discovered that every conversation nosedived into a negative topic. He feared he wouldn’t pass the bar on the first try due to his connection with them. Once he dissolved the relationship, he examined himself, wondering if he might bring others down, too.
He invites listeners to take inventory of themselves. Are you someone to run towards or away from? Self-awareness is the cornerstone of networking for success.
Connecting with Steven F. Macek
The G.R.I.P. Method
G.R.I.P. stands for "Greatness Requires Intention & Purpose," and many who have followed this method can attest to that. This strategy helps people find their goals, inspirations, and visions and execute them with clear intentions through planning, purpose, and integrity. It works with science and psychology to make dreams a reality.
It is a roadmap that guides you through struggles and hardships, with the final destination being the life you want to lead or the changes you wish to make. The G.R.I.P. Method offers a plan to go from fear to freedom and helps you break away from where past attempts did not work.
