Week 45 - What the hell is friendworking? 🤔

Hey my friend, this week the Friendworking 👋 newsletter grew by 363 new subscribers, and here is why 👇

You’re here because of 3 possible things:

• I’ve personally invited you in DM or through the speech I’ve done somewhere

• you came sometimes (or are still coming) to BTW meetups and shared with me your email

• you subscribed to the Communiverse newsletter with blog posts around Community ROI and Humans of Business podcasts!

Anyway, with like 99,9% of you we’ve intersected, and had at least one conversation 😊

And if we’ve had a conversation, you totally know that I deeply care about human connections, giving value, and making each other's lives better together 💪 

That’s exactly why I’ve got all the emails I’ve had, and imported them to this newsletter (sorry not sorry 😝), so if you don’t care about human connections, or think you’ve got enough stuff in your inbox already, please, go and, so I will never bother you with this “get-the-most-value-and-build-amazing-human-network” thing 😉 👇

Still, when the war in Ukraine started, I lost almost all the physical stuff I’ve collected for 33 years (except for a car and some first-necessity things), I am totally sure that the main things in life are:

• you and your family alive, safe, and healthy

• the amazing humans you know.

So, if you, like me, understand that strong and meaningful human connections are the second most important thing we have in life (that also makes us live longer and happier lives, according to the Harvard Study of Adult Development 😊), and would love to dive deeper into this topic, stay with me, and let’s make it work together 🤗🤩

This Thursday, I’ve made a speech about the importance of building your network, and how to make it on LinkedIn (check the recording here), and after it, Tatiana came to me and asked:

“Why do you do this? What is your goal?”

And I was like, to give value, share my experience, encourage, and motivate people to make some connections for professional and personal development, and she was like:

“I mean, people get money for such info, you do it for free, why?”

I’ve just finished the “Think and Grow Rich” book by Napoleon Hill, and there was an idea that if two great minds combine, they will be much more than just two minds, they will create a mastermind and grow together so much better than separately.

So the deeper thing, in addition to sharing value, practicing speaking skills, and making new great connections, is that if at least someone listens to what I’ve shared, starts doing it themselves, and comes back to me afterwards, we’ll create a mastermind, and get to the goals we have in our heads and hearts much faster!

(finally, some selfish motive, huh 😏😅)

I can tell you that it works for anyone!

If you’ve ever tried learning, working, brainstorming, even watching movies, going to some events, listening to some music, or literally doing anything with someone you clicked with, you’ve noticed that you’ve got much better results, ideas, learned faster, or just had much more fun than doing it by yourself, and that’s exactly why you need more meaningful friendworking in your life 😉🤗

Since the main focus of my presentation was exactly friendworking, here is a little tl;dr from it:

• Your profile = your personal website.

• One meaningful connection per day beats mass outreach.

• Follow-ups are NOT spam, people are busy, and you help them with it.

• The easiest way to get noticed without posting every day is by adding meaningful comments.

• Build a simple system to track relationships, and it’ll help you remember everyone and build long-term relationships.

• Staying human is still much more and beats any automation.

So yeah, that’s it for this week, and if you have any questions, thoughts, ideas, or personal examples of how to build better human connections, please answer this email, or connect with me on LinkedIn, and let’s talk 🤗🤓

💡 What influenced me this week 💡

Thoughts of the week:

• “One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.” - Lewis Carroll, daily quote from The Economist

• “The most toxic relationships aren’t the purely negative ones. They’re the ones that are a mix of positive and negative." - Adam Grant, Sahil Bloom’s newsletter

• “Your body and nervous system are anticipatory. When a relationship is unpredictable—sometimes good, sometimes bad—your physical systems never stand down. They stay alert. On edge. Guarded.” - Sahil Bloom’s newsletter

• “Jobs are not just money, they are meaning.” - Tony Robbins, DOAC podcast

• “I was the most relentless implementer, question asker, and participator.” - Max Sturtevant, Personal IPO podcast

• "The only certainty is that nothing is certain." - Pliny the Elder, Sahil Bloom’s newsletter

• “Focus equals reality to the individual.” - Tony Robbins

• “Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.” - Benjamin Franklin, daily quote from The Economist

• “Poor people are impressed by stuff. Rich people are impressed by results. Don’t outspend. Outwork.” - Alex Hormozi’s newsletter

Song of the week:

Book and quotes of the week:

Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

• “It is essential for you to encourage the positive emotions as dominating forces of your mind, and discourage and eliminate negative emotions”.

• “You can create anything you can imagine.”

• “Do not expect troubles as they have a tendency not to disappoint.”

Tools that I use with referrals:

• Descript - for anything around podcasting and video editing

• Beehiiv - for a newsletter (that’s what you receive 😅)

• Text Blaze - to access message templates with shortcuts (like “/ty”)

• Exali - promo “FROMYURII” - indemnity insurance for independent experts in Europe

• Scripe - to write better posts on LinkedIn

• Manus - for building complex systems and projects

Daily actions:

• tell 1 person what I’m thankful to them for

• read a self-development book/listen to a professional podcast for 15 minutes

• make a valuable post/comment on LinkedIn

• tag 15 people in my connections database

• connect with 30 interesting people on LinkedIn

• invite 5 people to join the 👋Friendworking newsletter

Weekly actions:

• transcribe one new episode of the Creator Spotlight and Personal IPO (bi-weekly) podcasts, learn something from them, and connect with guests on LinkedIn

• transcribe two new DOAC videos, and learn one thing from them

• connect 2 people who I believe need to be connected

• ask 30 people about what they want to learn about Community ROI.

If you have any thoughts, ideas, or questions, please 👇

And if you’d like to have more 👋 Friendworking in your life 👇

See you next week! 👋