Welcome to the game to your life. I'm Dave Anderson. It's time for our Friday.

Two-minute warning edition posted on Fridays to give you something to think about, watch for, or do to finish your week strong, maximize.

Bring it out, baby, your weekend.

I will also include an occasional red zone rant, not today.

I've done a few of those lately.

Got to let things calm down a little bit.

In this episode, I want to talk about the topic, reach out.

I did a similar topic a while back, but this keeps coming up, so I thought I need to do something else maybe to another level.

Here's what I mean.

In about 20 years now of speaking and 18 countries now, scarcely have I not had a conversation with someone in the audience, privately or otherwise, where they haven't lost touch with a friend, a family member, an old teammate, a workmate, and has some degree of regret or a sense of loss, if even in a small way, I'm just telling you, fix it, reach out, make the call, send the email, send the text, stop by their place, do it this weekend, do it today, do it while you're still thinking about it. And worrying about how they might take it or respond should not affect your decision to do it. You can't control that. Instead, here's what should affect it, the power of relationships, the power of loving someone, of reconciling with someone, of bringing closure to a chapter in your life is what should influence your decision. I'll just tell you, there's power and take an action. And doing what scares you,

doing what makes you uncomfortable, to risk looking or feeling foolish, but that's what's necessary to grow. Leave in your comfort zone, changing, risking, going out on a limb. By the way, if you want fruit from the tree, you've got to get out on the limb. You know, that's where the fruit is. You gotta stop hugging the trunk.

Some of you have hugged the trunk long enough.

Reach out.

Do it now before you cool down.

Let me just close with this. You may not be able to add years to your life, but you can add life to your years. And you could start now by reaching out. You know who it is. You know what you need to do. Go for it. It might just make you feel great. In fact, I bet it will.

Stop being lived.

Start living the game, change your life.

And we'll talk again real soon. Thank you.