Total happiness requires meaningful relationships with other people. When this is missing you feel: sad, lonely, lost self-conscious, incomplete. Building meaningful relationships is not difficult. Only you need to know how!

Here’s what to do:

Be Friendly and Happy

Happiness is a people magnate—others will be attracted to you. A happy and friendly mood will turn strangers into acquaintances and acquaintances into friends. With your smile you broadcast, “I am interested in being your friend.” Be easy, causal and spontaneous about sharing the good stuff in your life. Learn how to increase happiness with the following Smart Life Modules:

• Enter Happiness – Discover How to Create Happy Feelings (audio course)
• Optimism – The Art of Positive Thinking (audio course)

Be Emotionally Attractive

Physical presence—physique, clothes, posture—is important. The same applies to emotional presence. Calmness; kindness; patience; trustworthiness; confidence; and honesty are attractive. Anger; moodiness; insensitivity and lying are ugly and push others away. Learn to be emotionally attractive with the following Smart Life Modules:

• Relax and Live Stress Free – Bless Yourself With Physical and Mental Serenity (audio course)
• Relaxation Made Easy: Learn to still Your Body, Mind & Soul, and Reduce Relationship Stress (written course)
• How to Make a Man Happy(written course for women to read)
• How to Make a Woman Happy(written course for men to read)
• Relationship Glue: 8 Powerful Reasons for Staying Together(written course)

Be a Good Communicator

Successful communication is measured by how your partner in communication feels when talking with you and the degree of mutual understanding the conversation generates. When talking creates feelings of care, closeness and love, the future holds the promise for more of the same and your relationship will naturally deepen. Learn to be good communicator with the following Smart Life Modules:

• Be a Couple-Team: The 14 Essential Ingredients Needed to Form a Successful Partnership (written course)
• Relationship Listening – Attract the People You Like and Bring Them Close to You (audio course)

Be Confident and Assertive

Feel confident and deserving of having good friends and a close and intimate relationship with the right person. Let the person of interest know that you seek his or her friendship and/or love. When rejection occasionally happens, don’t take it as a personal failing. Finding the right person to be close with is no different than shopping for the “right” house or car. Be certain you will in the end succeed building a strong social network.

• Assertive Behavior – Feel Strong, Be Strong, and Get What You Want (audio course)
• Strong Self-esteem – Like Yourself Now and Forever (audio course)

Meaningful relationships are not built in a day. Shared experience and time builds strong bonds of care, affection and love. When friends and/or a committed and loving partner are present in your life you experience the kinds of feelings that make you feel alive. Love, joy, passion, being known, fear, vulnerability, and anger are common emotions. We nurture some of these feelings, while others we reject. All together they make us who we are and life worth living. On your death bed—and you should live many long and healthy years—you will review your relationships. You will understand that the close people in your life—your husband or wife/committed partner/son or daughter/friends—will determine, in your own eyes, the worth of your life; not money, status, or fame. Companionship and love are a valued treasure giving your life meaning and hope for the future.