{"id":2993,"date":"2010-09-14T04:21:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T10:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=2993"},"modified":"2010-09-13T19:33:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T01:33:28","slug":"dave-rave-%e2%80%93-five-signs-you%e2%80%99re-not-relatable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/dave-rave-%e2%80%93-five-signs-you%e2%80%99re-not-relatable\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Rave \u2013 Five Signs You\u2019re Not Relatable"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have you ever met someone who just seems cold and distant?\u00a0 They don\u2019t know how to carry on a conversation and when they do, their responses are often biting and totally insensitive.<\/p>\n

Right or wrong, we write people off as unkind, mean, or downright bad if they don\u2019t have relationship skills.\u00a0 Here are five signs you\u2019re not relatable:<\/p>\n

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  1. You\u2019re not relatable if you don\u2019t make eye-contact.<\/strong> Whether we\u2019re in a hurry, insecure, or feel out of your element, oftentimes refusing to make eye-contact with another person says to them, \u201cyou\u2019re not important and I don\u2019t really want to be here, I can\u2019t wait until we get away from each other.\u201d\u00a0 This feeling will destroy not only your career, but your family.<\/li>\n
  2. You\u2019re not relatable if you don\u2019t learn the fine art of listening. <\/strong> How many of us simply tolerate another\u2019s conversation in order to speak our mind? If people are convinced you\u2019re not listening, it\u2019s one of the most disrespectful things you can do at home, in the marketplace, or on a sales call.\u00a0 Be more interested in them than you are in your sales speech.<\/li>\n
  3. You\u2019re not relatable if you can\u2019t demonstrate a generous spirit.<\/strong> This is a tough one because this can\u2019t be faked, at least not for long.\u00a0 Generosity is something that comes from within you.\u00a0 It was Jesus who said, \u201cI\u2019ve come to give you life and to give you life more abundantly.\u201d\u00a0 He talked about living waters that would flow from inside out.\u00a0 People who are generous have experience grace and generosity themselves. And their humility and their great blessings flow over in signs of generosity.\u00a0 If you are stingy, negative, and gossipy people will assume the worst about you.\u00a0 Remember, when you cut other people down, the person you\u2019re talking to will also assume you\u2019ll do the same to you.<\/li>\n
  4. You\u2019re not relatable if you\u2019re not learning<\/strong>.\u00a0 The point is, in every relationship there has to be conversation.\u00a0 And that conversation has to be more than just the box scores of the latest baseball game.\u00a0 Learning makes you interesting.\u00a0 It makes you relatable.\u00a0 It gives you insight into what other people are going through.\u00a0 If you\u2019re not reading, exploring, stretching, and growing, you\u2019re not relatable because you\u2019ll have no content to relate to.<\/li>\n
  5. You\u2019re not relatable if you don\u2019t like yourself.<\/strong> Yeah, believe it or not, if you don\u2019t feel good about yourself, you feel insecure, empty, if you\u2019re mad, bitter, and resentful, you\u2019ll be like an emotional porcupine that people don\u2019t want to be around or touch because the slightest thing can set you off.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you take this little test and find that you\u2019re not relatable, here is the good news: each one of these can be fixed.\u00a0 And you can start fixing them today by being self-aware and asking those closest to you to read through these and tell you where you stand in each of these categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Have you ever met someone who just seems cold and distant?\u00a0 They don\u2019t know how to carry on a conversation and when they do, their responses are often biting and totally insensitive. Right or wrong, we write people off as unkind, mean, or downright bad if they don\u2019t have relationship skills.\u00a0 Here are five signs … Continue reading “Dave Rave \u2013 Five Signs You\u2019re Not Relatable”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2993"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}