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connectication

In all the relational circles I spend time in it seems there is a growing grumbling and concern for the trends in communication. With the realities of busyness and reliance on email, texting and social media correspondence less people genuinely connect in communication these days. This is why I am coining a new term for where we need to focus on in all levels of our relationships: Connectication

Connectication is a hybrid of communication and connecting. Psychological research shows that human connection is a major variable to happiness in one’s life and I am concerned that true connection is on the decline because of some of our world’s communication trends; therefore, I am going to make 2016 a year where I focus on connecticating.

To connecticate one must value the person that is being communicated with. Genuine value for another can only better relationship. It seems with the quantity of people I communicate with each day it is harder to realize the genuine value of each person, but that is no excuse. I am seeking to have high quality relationships in my life not high quantity. I have found when life gets tough and I need to lean on others those who step up are the genuine relationships so I seek to deepen quality relationships this year, not expand my rolodex with quantity of shallow relationships.

One of my core focal points to better connecticate this year is to look for opportunity to be empathetic to create genuine value in relationships. I believe the difference between sympathy and empathy is the ability to truly relate to another’s circumstance. For example if my friend gets in an accident and breaks his collarbone I can have sympathy, while if in the past or present I have also broken  my collarbone and I truly understand the nature of the hardship, inconveniences and pain then I can have empathy. To take more of an empathetic posture in my relationships I am having a keen ear to listen to other’s life circumstance that I have or am also experiencing. Doing so will help me listen and relate genuinely with the ability to help, speak into and pray for that persons hardships.

I am excited about building deeper relationship through intentionality and connectication.  Please help me and others learn how you are connecticating and maybe we can change the growing grumbles and concerns for the trends in communication towards depth, empathy and richness.

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