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So here's my question. How connected or disconnected have you felt to yourself, to your friends, to your family, your

loved ones, to people who really matter to you over the course of this year.

This has been a very challenging year on the connection front for so many.

Coming out the last three years, I think so many of us just figured we drop back into our relationships

with the same level of depth and zest and joy. But for many, reconnecting has

actually been a real struggle and for a wide variety of reasons from technology

to the state of the world, and really just all the things that are

swirling around us and the fact that we are still emerging from a season of profound disruption

and trying to figure out how to be with each other again, which is why of into the wisdom of the good life buckets to better understand how this last year has impacted us in three critical areas, vitality, connection and contribution.

And today, we're doing a deep dive into your connection. and

contribution and today we're doing a deep dive into your connection bucket. Now if you missed our opening episode in this special bonus year and reflection series

or last week's part two on the vitality bucket, you'll definitely want to

cue those up to listen to as well because I share the basic model of the good

life buckets and why they're so powerful in helping us both understand how the key

areas of our lives are doing and also giving us the information needed to really

look ahead and make whatever changes or shifts we want to in order to come back to life in all areas of life in the year to come.

And then last week we went deep into the topic of vitality or your vitality bucket. what it is and is not.

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