This post is Day 24 of the 31 Days to Reset Your Life Challenge for 2011. Learn more and sign up for the program here.
Yesterday, you joined a community to support your goals. Whatever community you chose to join – whether online or offline – it’s not going to do you any good if you don’t connect with the people in it! So today, you’re going to make a new friend. The idea is that through your new networks, you now have new opportunities for mutual support. The more like-minded people you align yourself with, the less lonely it will be on the road toward reaching your goals.
Estimated Time to Complete: 30-60 minutes
Think about the people you’ve encountered so far in your community of support. Who have been the folks that you’ve “clicked” with the most? Make a list of at least three people you’ve met recently that you have something in common with. Or maybe just those who have a similar outlook for their future and goals for life. These are your potential new friends!
Your next step can take the form of any of the following:
- Invite them to meet up for coffee, lunch, drinks or dinner
- Ask them to join you for an upcoming event of mutual interest – perhaps a seminar, conference, happy hour, concert, play, art gallery, or party
- Call, Skype, email or text them to see how they’ve been doing since the last time you saw them
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Here is my blog post for this exercise
http://luvndanaturalme.wordpress.com/2012/01/08/31-day-reset-day-24-make-a-new-friend/
I texted and reconnected with some old classmates from my dance class and continued talking and building friendships with a few people I met last week (including the guy from the club =) He’s nice.). I just joined my Meetup groups yesterday and so have yet to actually MEET UP with anyone yet – I’m just not comfortable with messaging a random internet stranger to meet me, even if we do have a common interest – but there’s a Polyglot meetup tomorrow, so I hopefully can make it and make a new friend there.
Still got a lot out of this exercise, though. It pushed me to examine my feelings and attitudes about making friends and meeting new people, and then to thoughtfully choose which attitudes and feelings I want to take forward into my new life. Thanks, Rosetta!
This could be a difficult task for me. What I realize I need to do is really get involved by going to classes, workshops etc. that interest me and really get to know people with similar interests. I have difficulty forming close relationships with people because I have a tendency to distance myself from others. I am a loner- by choice. Not because I am anti-social but because I don’t have a NEED to have the company of others and I do forget to follow up with people I have met and we end up drifting apart. I need help in this area.
For now I guess I can develop close relationships with people of an online community which I am apart of. I just need to put a little more effort into it. I can then build on that.
It was difficult to come up with how to do this, but I think I did a pretty good job at an attempt! My blog: http://wp.me/p1rrQZ-3T
Read my latest blog post…31 Day Reset: Day 24 – Make New Friends
I moved VERY far so I didn’t really have a choice. Made 1 new acquaintance since October 2010 & 2 new friends within the past few months. It was kinda scary for me & 1 of the two friends because we both deal with social anxiety, but everything has turned out alright. It’s almost always scary for me with anyone, but I’ve gotten a little better.
I can identify with you. I am most definitely an introvert and I don’t always feel comfortable reaching out to others to create friendships. It can be a scary thing so I really have to step out of my comfort zone.