As Brian says about the people you know, "Your connection to the rest of the world is the people who already know you."

Thoughts on reconnecting with people who know you around the time of your birthday or other events in life.

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Are you taking care of your network?

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live. Coming to you every day, from more than most days coming to you from Grants Pass, Oregon.

I'm here at the headquarters for BrianJPombo.com, and I want to talk a little bit about your personal network.

So today, I sent out a message. And I get this opportunity at least once a year, okay, every birthday period, I have a time when everybody reaches out I mean, huge numbers of people reach out and say happy birthday, on my Facebook profile.

So if you have any type of social media profile, it's a great opportunity to be able to reach back out to people because they're reaching out to you. And you know, having that conversation that's already going on in your customers mind in a sentence, you know, and that not that everybody who knows you or customers, but there are resource, everybody's a resource.

That's not a bad thing, it doesn't mean that you don't love them, and that you don't care for the people in your life and everything. But they're also a great resource, they're your connection to the rest of the world is to the people who already know you.

And if they know you, like you and trust you even better.

But I sent out this message, and it was because my birthday a few days ago, sent out a video just saying, "Hey, I'm going to be reached out to more people."

One of the things that I realized, especially this year, it's something that's for years, it's becoming more and more clear. And that's that everybody you know, is a resource for something.

And that you're a resource back to them for something they may be able to use at some point or be able to get help with. It may not be you particularly but you're at the connection to the rest of the world for them.

And so it's in all of our best interest to stay connected.

On top of all them major issues with social media, I think one of them is it gives us a false sense of connection.

I mean, we are connected more than we ever have been, right?

I mean, I don't think anybody has stayed as well connected to their people they went to high school with and other other groups like that, then we do because of social media. I mean, it's amazing what we we do have some type of connection.

And we are able to see each other's pictures and things of that sort, on occasion here and there. But for the most part, we are really connected with them, we are really talking back and forth with them.

In most cases, we aren't necessarily even getting on the phone with them or having a video call with them. But we can you see it gives us the opportunity, we can start that conversation at any point.

The easy thing is to watch a feed a social media feed and seeing someone bring up something that then you can add something on to and then you can reach out to them based on that concept. It's all about staying connected. And so what I told myself is what I'm going to try and do.

We're just an experiment, we'll see if I can actually get along with if I can build up a habit of calling people on a weekly basis.