Stop Being a Life Renter and Start Owning Your Life: Become a Life CEO
Introduction

Who decides how largely you live?

Have you taken responsibility for the maintenance of your life, or have you forfeited control to a costcollecting
landlord? Are you paying to occupy a space to which you're inherently entitled?

Here's a tip: Take command of your life! Become your own landlord, and watch your life expand.

Take a moment to consider who and what comprises your life. How many individuals do you associate
with in your day-to-day dealings? Your superiors and inferiors; your bosses and your buyers; your
colleagues and your employees...

Consider your relationship with each individual. Do some relationships stand stronger than others?
Chances are, the strength of each was decided by your opinion of the relationship's value as relative to
your own personal success.

If you were to discover that each of these relationships is not only equally valuable, but is essential to
the continued growth and development of your life, would you reconsider the way you approach your
associates? What steps would you take to begin nurturing and maintaining these relationships, thereby
nurturing and maintaining your own growth?

The truth is, all of your life's relationships are equally valuable. Your associates are your stakeholders.
They comprise the “company” that is your life, and they determine both the successes and the failures
of that company. If it serves to benefit your company, shouldn't you want all of your associations to be
productive partnerships?

You should. But maybe this isn't as easy as it sounds. What exactly, after all, do you really stand to lose
by not nurturing each and every one of your countless partnerships? Here's a hint: if you don't maintain
ties with your stockholders, your competitors will — and trust me, they are paying attention.

So, how do you effect this change? How can you build a profitable partnership from a personnel
pitfall? I can help you there. If I've learned anything from my 30-year career as both a business
consultant and a psychologist, it's that all partnerships can benefit from a little guidance, coaching, and
redirection.

I present to you a list of the 52 skills necessary for growing and maintaining profitable business
relationships. By mastering this list, you too can stand out as a leader and a confidant that others look
up to with respect. You too can become a Relationship Navigator.

You have the power to maintain your partnerships; in your control, your company can expand. Embrace
your roll as the CEO of your life. Effect change. Take control.

Coming soon, I’ll be posting all 52 practices here; check back to learn the skills that will have you
“owning” your life.