Why Maintain Your Relationship By Treating It Like a Bank Account?
If you want to maintain a healthy relationship, view it as a bank account that needs regular deposits of positivity to thrive. Having been Banker for over many years, I share this analogy in many of my training programs/interactions. While the comparison may sound transactional and uncomfortable, the idea of relationships as a bank account hits home for one very important reason: both need regular deposits to maintain. Think about your relationships, with family, friends, work colleagues, and strangers, as though they are a metaphorical bank account. Making a deposit into your relationship with that individual requires you to do something that adds intrinsic and/or extrinsic value to his life. Conversely, a withdrawal is doing something that causes undue effort, favor, and subtracts value.
The most important thing with any bank account is knowing what your balance is, and taking action when you’re beginning to go overdrawn. Think about the last person you interacted with. Ask yourself: If my relationship with that person is like a bank account, what is my account balance? Do I have a lot of credit with this person, or have I been making withdrawals without any deposits? The answers will give you insight into how this person responds to you and to requests you make. Strive to make constant deposits into your relational bank account with every person you interact with. Your goal is to make deposits by taking meaningful action that creates intrinsic and/or extrinsic meaning for the relationship. Withdrawals tend to be weighted more heavily than deposits as people consciously remember the not good more than the good. As the builder of relationship wealth, you have to make considerably more deposits than withdrawals.
Relationships need to be handled well. For the next few days, try to be mindful of your relational bank account balance with people you interact with, and especially people who are close to you or with whom you interact frequently. Make many deposits, and be mindful of withdrawals. After doing this for a few days, you will probably improve your relational account balance in many of these relationships, and interactions will become smoother. After all, we only get back what we put in.
Happy Sunday!! Keep Moving & Smiling!!🏃🏽😊
The most important thing with any bank account is knowing what your balance is, and taking action when you’re beginning to go overdrawn. Think about the last person you interacted with. Ask yourself: If my relationship with that person is like a bank account, what is my account balance? Do I have a lot of credit with this person, or have I been making withdrawals without any deposits? The answers will give you insight into how this person responds to you and to requests you make. Strive to make constant deposits into your relational bank account with every person you interact with. Your goal is to make deposits by taking meaningful action that creates intrinsic and/or extrinsic meaning for the relationship. Withdrawals tend to be weighted more heavily than deposits as people consciously remember the not good more than the good. As the builder of relationship wealth, you have to make considerably more deposits than withdrawals.
Relationships need to be handled well. For the next few days, try to be mindful of your relational bank account balance with people you interact with, and especially people who are close to you or with whom you interact frequently. Make many deposits, and be mindful of withdrawals. After doing this for a few days, you will probably improve your relational account balance in many of these relationships, and interactions will become smoother. After all, we only get back what we put in.
Happy Sunday!! Keep Moving & Smiling!!🏃🏽😊
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