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It’s all great to have a lot of success in your life and making a lot of money, but what’s the point of it if you have no one to share your success. Would you really like to have millions upon millions of dollars if your life was limited to spending all your time to your business or your work?

It is of utmost importance to have a good network of contacts, and more importantly, friends. You should always have in mind that making new contacts is very important. It is moments that we spend with other people that leave the greatest memories and bring the most happiness.

But you see, no matter how important socializing is, it seems that a great number of people have let it aside. There are more and more surveys and studies that show that today, more than ever, people are spending more time alone. They spend their time watching TV shows, they surf on the internet for hours everyday, they listen to music alone, they play video games, etc…All these activities are fun and they each have a place in our life, but it is not a reason to seclude ourselves from the rest of the world.

For many, they have spent so much time alone that they almost forgot how to socialize; they almost don’t think about it and live their life alone. Others have concentrated so much time and effort to their finance that they spend no more than just a few minutes a week with their friends.

The best way to improve your social skills is to simply practice it. Go out there and meet new people. Take your phone now and call a good friend who you haven’t spoke to for some while and try to connect back. Start little at first; just try to connect with 1-2 people every week. Before you know it, you will have built a good network in just a few weeks.

As you practice, your level of comfort will grow. You will start visiting new places, making new friends and attending even more social events.

In order, here are the steps to a better social life.
1) Realize how important it is to have a social life.
2) Start small to building relationships.
3) Practice and keep practicing

Sharing your life with other people brings fun and happiness. At the minimum, we all need at least a few hours of socializing every week where we can forget all of our problems in our life and just having a good time and fun with friends.

Improving relationships in life can mean the difference between a sad life and a happy life; it’s that simple and direct. While this blog talks a lot on making money, let us not forget why we want more money. In the minds of most, more money equals more happiness. But is that always true? The answer is obviously no. We all heard about these stories of rich people who are sad or suffer from depression, or the numerous celebrities who have so many problems that happiness is nowhere to be found. All this to say that more money is not the only element in the equation when it comes to happiness.

Another thing I noticed in the last few years is the number of people who told me that the happiest people who they have met in their life were simply ordinary people; people who don’t have millions or don’t live in luxury. By getting more interested by these stories, I realized that all these people had 1 thing in common, they all had great relationships!

You probably heard this over and over, and I think people do not really understand it. To develop relationships, you need to be a good listener! To have a great relationship, it means to be not a good, but a great listener. It also means to not take it to the extreme, and that is on both sides. Here’s what I mean. In a conversation, we all want to tell our stories and talk about us, but the fact is that it will not improve your relationship. Constantly talking about yourself and not caring about what the other person says will just destroy any chance of developing your friendship. Here’s the other extreme. Being a good listener does not mean not talking at all; that is plain boring. Being the most expert pure listener who understands and cares about the other person but doesn’t talk will not improve your relationship. Being a good listener means to listen and care and also share a little of you to make a perfect blend.

Another technique is to use humor. Humor is the uncontestable technique to build relationships. We all like to laugh and it’s entertaining. We even pay to watch comedians. One question has always remained, are we born funny or do we become funny? The answer is BOTH. Some people from a very young age are able to pull jokes out of thin air and find funny lines over and over. Other struggle to even say a single funny comment during their whole year; but this doesn’t mean that you can not learn to be funny. Being funny can learned, but it takes practice. How? Go out with friends as much as possible and force yourself to make funny lines; look around, analyze the environment, think about the latest happenings, listen and concentrate to the conversation. You can improve yourself at everything in life with practice, and being funny can be improved too. Some are born with that ability, and some aren’t, but we all have the ability to be funny.