You Need Intimacy to Succeed with Dr. April Brown

The connection between relationships, intimacy, and business is stronger than you think. Your relationships and your level of intimacy with yourself, others, and God influence your business growth. Relationships and intimacy influence business growth. Of course, you can think of relationship marketing, but your personal relationships and level of intimacy with yourself, your spouse, and even with God are also important. You need intimacy to succeed in life and business. Intimacy begins with being present Social media is one of the distractions that keep you from being present. We need personal connection and intimacy and trying to emulate everything and everyone you see online distracts from focusing on being present and building connection. As a business owner, it's easy to compare yourself with other entrepreneurs, but it's so much better to support one another, hold each other up, and build relationships with like-minded people. Take a step back and not look at what other people are doing and concentrate on what God is calling you to do. Get intimate with the Holy Spirit and listen to what he's telling you to do for the next right step. Improving intimacy with God To be truly intimate is also to listen. Don't just pray, tell God your problems, ask Him for things, but then listen. Dr. Brown emphasized that it's also important to ask God who we are, who he wants us to be, and how we should use the gifts he's given us. If you think about it, you need intimacy to succeed not only sexual intimacy. You need intimacy with God. To be in a relationship with Jesus to communicate with Him and listen for Him. Intimacy with self Another way you need intimacy to succeed is through self-acceptance. You need an intimate relationship with yourself to accept yourself, to love yourself, to respect yourself, and to be kind to yourself. In addition, all of your relationships will begin with your relationship with yourself. You should never say anything bad about yourself because you have to live with yourself for the rest of your life. The world may talk about you but don't talk negatively about yourself. The Bible says that we are to love our neighbor as ourselves. Truly love yourself because people will treat you the way you treat yourself. Even Jesus took time for himself. As a business owner, it's important for you to as well. When you rest, you will have more energy to build intimate connections. Intimate connection with your spouse, your kids, and others requires you to have good self-intimacy and to know yourself and your boundaries.   Learn more and connect with Dr. April Brown Website for Dr. April Brown   Read the full show notes and access all links.