It isn’t having a clean house that will help you have what you think you want. It’s not your career, your body, stuff you buy, how much of the world you see, or any of the other thousands of the things on which we place importance.

So what matters?

A few years ago, I learned about the 83+ year-long Harvard Grant Study, a longitudinal study of 268 Harvard sophomores. This study followed these people throughout their whole life, from their time at Harvard through their careers, their retirements, clear until their deaths. And 83 years later, after the highest levels of professional and worldly success, incredible success in business and government and community service and the arts, when measuring every factor of the lives of these highest achievers, the single most important determinant of a fulfilled, happy life was the quality of their closest relationships.

Think about the power of that. In the end, what matters most in the end is the quality of your closest relationships. That’s the thing. And PLAY helps you connect in a way nothing else can.

In this episode, Tara Wardle tells her story of investing in her family relationships through skiing. I tell of connecting to those less close through kite flying.

I think there’s something so so so useful in these simple lessons. They may be reminders, but they’re worth being reminded of!

Enjoy 22 minutes about connecting!