Importance of Building Community Around You

08/12/18 • 54 min

In this episode, I am on the road and talking about building community. Humans are social creatures. We are not meant to live in this world alone. Sometimes we do need to “have a little help from our friends.”

My questions to you are:

Do you have some friends that have your back?
Have you spent some time building community around you?

Unfortunately in modern Western Civilization, the answer is probably no. I have to admit: I need to work on this as well. We are going to make some changes to Small Scale Life to help you build community around you, where ever you are.

For more on that, please head over to Small Scale Life to read the post that has more thoughts, information and links.

My questions to you are:

Do you have some friends that have your back?
Have you spent some time building community around you?

For more on that, please head over to Small Scale Life to read the post that has more thoughts, information and links.

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