Make Meaningful Connections This Summer!

Dear Friend, "In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it, and over it." ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe None of us is an island unless we choose to ignore the bridges in our life. Reach out. Walk across your bridges. In this world of drive-throughs, delivery service, and technology devices, it is easy to sit in our office or home and feel alone. In fact, even if we are "chatting" on the Internet, I am not sure we can fool ourselves into believing that we are meaningfully connected to anyone. It is easy to be stuck in a rut and forget that we have a beautiful web of friends, family, and colleagues who love us and care for us. This web of friendship is designed to support us and celebrate with us. Yet our web of connections is only as good as we are at using it. Last November I suggested you Make Meaningful Connections! This week I want to discuss 10 ways you can make meaningful connections and have fun this summer. Here are 10 ways to make meaningful connections and have fun this summer: Help your neighbor with their yard work. Invite your friends or family for a bbq. Turn on your sprinkler and run through like you are a child at play! Encourage your neighbors to join in the fun. Invite your friends to a potluck picnic in your backyard. Invite your significant other to a park bench picnic. Bring a cheese plate, some wine (and nice glasses, too) and enjoy being together. Have a car wash and use the proceeds for a trip to the amusement park. Pick fruit and make a jam for all of your neighbors and your postal worker too! Have a garage sale with your neighbors - clean up and make money! Have a lemonade stand and donate the proceeds to a local animal shelter. Get a group of friends together to do a walk, run, or race - make connections and support a great cause! Make It Happen This week I'd like to ask you to consider how you can make meaningful connections with the people in your life. Take a leap and try one of the 10 suggestions above or something new that is uniquely yours. Make of point of connecting, not for them, but for you.

Blessings to you, Margaret. P.S. Encourage your friends, family, and colleagues by sharing this newsletter with them and invite them to subscribe! Direct them to www.MargaretPundmann.com where they can sign up. Margaret Pundmann is a life and business coach, speaker, and author of numerous articles on living your most powerful life. Stay tuned, Margaret's first book for emerging women will be available for pre-order in the coming weeks.