My little boy wanted a pet dog.
But my wife doesn’t like dogs.
So we gave him a potted plant instead.
I know. We sound cruel, but that’s not true. We even disinfect the torture chambers in our basement regularly with Lysol.
“You need to learn responsibility,” my wife told my son. “If you take care of your potted plant, we’ll know if you can take care of a pet dog.”
The logic was superb. But for some reason, my son wasn’t too happy. My wife pinched me, indicating that it was now my turn to tell my son something. Anything. (I’m very adept in the language of pinchywoo. It’s an ancient dialect where people spoke to each other by pinching.) In pinchywoo language, my wife wanted me to tell my son that he had to accept the fact that he’ll be the only boy in the entire galaxy that’ll have a potted plant for a pet. Isn’t that cool?
I had to think of something, fast. And eureka, my brilliant mind remembered a profound philosophical insight from an ancient source.
I quoted Barney, the purple dinosaur. “Just imagine, just imagine!” I pointed to the plant and said, “Imagine this is a dog. Let’s call him a name. I suggest Ruff.”
My son’s jaw dropped.
“Ruff is very unique,” I went on, “He doesn’t bark. He doesn’t eat. He doesn’t poop. He doesn’t walk. He doesn’t lick your face with saliva…”
“Uh…maybe because it’s not a dog?” my son interrupted my creativity.
“Shhh. Don’t say that,” I whispered, “The plant may hear you…”
“I don’t get it,” my son said.
“The plant has to think it’s a dog too.”
His eyes rolled up to the ceiling.
“Son, you only have to do one thing. You have to water it, everyday.”
“Sure, Dad,” my son intoned with the great excitement and enthusiasm and zest of a…potted plant.
Soon, he forgot about watering his pet plant. He found it boring. Hmm, I wonder why.
And in a few weeks, Ruff the potted plant died.
We didn’t bury him. After all, it wasn’t really a dog.
Key Word: Deliberate
Do you want to have happy relationships?
Your relationships are just like plants.
You need to water them daily or they die.
For relationships, their water is love.
If you don’t give your relationships enough time, or attention, or respect, or kindness–all of which are expressions of love–they too will die.
Happy relationships don’t just happen. You make them happen.
How do you create happy relationships?
Here is the secret: Deliberately nurture them.
The key word is “deliberate”.
I know of husbands and wives who live under one roof but whose hearts are so far apart, you’d think one lives in Venus and the other in Mars. (Hmm, why does that sound so familiar?) I know of parents and kids who no longer connect at a deep level–because they’re not deliberate in nurturing their relationship.
All the happy people I know in this world are fantastic experts in building happy relationships. No exceptions.
In the next 4 weeks, I want to share with you 4 powerful steps of creating happy relationships in your life:
Step 1: Create patterns of connection
Step 2: Be kind
Step 3: Prioritize people over money
Step 4: Make others successful
May your dreams come true,
Bo Sanchez
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