Memo No.025
TO: EVERYONE WHO WOULD LOVE TO INVEST MORE INTO THEIR FRIENDSHIPS
FROM: The Memo
DATE:
SUBJECT: THIS TACTIC TAKES 30 SECONDS A WEEK & WORKS FRIENDSHIP WONDERS
I distinctly remember the drastic turn my friendships took the moment my school years came to a close. My senior year of college, I lived with two of my best friends, went on walks with my best friend regularly and saw nearly everyone in my friend orbit on a regular basis. Friendship, I've found, never returns to the front burner of our lives quite like this ever again.
This facet of our life takes another drastic turn once weddings are few and far between, too. Fortunately, I've found forging ahead into parenthood together extraordinarily bonding.
A few of my fellow working moms and I are vowing to dine out together every other month. A supper club, we're calling it, but nobody has to host or cook :). Sure, structure like this lacks spontaneity but is so often necessary during this life stage. Another similar habit struck a chord with me on Cameron Oak Rogers' podcast, Conversations with Cam. The host reflects on last year's resolutions that really resonated.
"Oh! I have a really good one.
Every Friday for every week of the year
I chose a different person to send a detailed
message on why I love them
and appreciate them.
CAMERON OAKS ROGERS
And I kept a note of everyone and what I said to them so I didn't do the same person twice. So, what, there were 52 weeks in a year? And, if it was like your birthday week, I would try to do you for that week. It honestly was so fulfilling, and it felt great because you know I love telling people words of affirmation.
And it was some people that...I don't know when I would ever send that detailed of a message. [52 people is a lot of people!] Right, you're getting out of your inner circle."
