Franziska: Hi and welcome back to Basic Bananas TV. My name is Franziska and I’m one of the founders of Basic Bananas. Today I’d like to answer a question that one of our members asked me last week. The question was, “How do you choose the right people to hang out with?” The right partners, the right friends, even the right team members. I had to think for a minute to come up with an answer of how we and I personally choose the people that I want to hangout with.

Here’s to give you an example, right now in this video is being filmed in Greece, where we are staying. The reason why we came here is because we wanted to hangout with some friends that we met in Gibraltar and I definitely invest energy and time and effort into meeting people that I want to spend time with. Pretty much anywhere in the world because they matter.

How do I know that they matter? First of all, I definitely think that it’s a little of a gut feeling for me personally so if my intuition is saying, “No,” straight away to someone that I’m meeting I definitely now got a little bit better with not always saying yes to everything and I remember there was definitely a time in my life where I said yes to anything and everything and I was just always busy I guess with lots of people.

Now it’s more about … I think about who are the people that I want to spend time with and a lot of … The currently that I [inaudible 00:01:31] of course people that I grew up with but then for new people it’s definitely a gut feeling first and then it’s also knowing that I can add value to this relationship because relationships, of course, you want to approach them from a point of view where you know you can add value. It’s definitely a lot of giving going on and also knowing that when you leave that persons or when you’re spending time with people or team members or partners in a business that you live excited, you live with more energy not less energy because if you have a relationship right now in your life and every time you meet with that person you walk away with less energy and there are definitely … Some relationships are like that.

That was hard for me personally, the relationships that I personally I don’t really want to foster too much. It sometimes can be hard to cut those off but I think it’s probably not the benefit to yourself or the other person to keep going.

To answer the question for me personally it’s definitely a gut feeling. It’s about how can add value to this person. I’m going to walk away from this relationship or this time together with someone. Do I feel more excited, more empowered and are they supporting my dreams and my visions as much as I support their dreams and their visions?

That’s pretty much long answer to this question but I hope this is giving some sorts and maybe you do have relationships that you want to maybe not keep continue and maybe there are other relationships that you want to chase and you want to invest in them. I do believe in investing in relationships and building them and growing with people because people are really what makes this whole thing worth it whether it’s in business or life or anywhere in any area pretty much.