Connect the Dots

My family used to go on a lot of road trips when I was young. I became an expert at that game where you draw dots and then each person gets to make one straight line (at a time) and try to make boxes. Once you made a box you would put your initials in it. Loved that game. I thought of myself as quite the strategic little thinker.

Making connections in real life can some times be like that. You make a friend, introduce a friend to that new friend and voila new connections are made. Maybe you are looking for a new job and have to try and leverage the people you know into a new opportunity for yourself.

I have a friend who says he trades on the relationship market, as oppposed to the stock market. Who does he know? are they rising for falling? Interesting way to think of all the people we meet, deal with, like or dislike.

Here is the connection questionairre -- tell me about your dots that are connected!

• Do you come from a large family? Is your family close in a traditional sense?


• Do you like to throw parties of strange groupings of people?


• Where do you make most of your connections?


• If you wanted to make a new friend, where would you look first?


• Who is your most trusted with a secret connection?


• Who is your connection who knows the most people?


• Who is your connection that you have lost touch with but would like to rekindle?


• Do you make a lot of new connections or stick with your older connections?


• Have you ever had to move and start over?


• Do you believe internet connections are as powerful as real life connections?