I don’t expect you to finish this book and suddenly have every relationship figured out.

What I do hope is that you walk away understanding that our relationships deserve the same kind of investment we give to so many other areas of our lives that we want to succeed.

We invest in our careers. We learn new technology. We build businesses. We work on our health. We develop our leadership skills. We plan for our financial future. We do all of these things because we understand that if we want them to grow, improve or last, we have to put something into them. Our relationships are no different.

I want this book to give you practical skills for doing that. How do you create connection when there is distance? What does commitment really look like when life gets busy? How do you grow when another person is triggering something in you? How do you forgive without pretending something didn’t hurt? And what do you do when a relationship reaches a point where something has to change?

These are some of the questions we’ll work through using the five areas of Heart Skills®.

But more than anything, I hope this book helps you pay attention to the relationships that are already shaping your life and gives you something practical to do’s when they get hard. Because if we’re willing to invest so much of ourselves into everything else to build to gain success, our relationships deserve that investment too.