The Need for Community
Being the “new girl” in town every three to four years can certainly shine a light on your need for community quicker than anything else. Our first and second move as a newly married couple was eye opening to this. Our first home was in a historic neighborhood with other families who were extremely close knit. The kind that bring cookies around when they see a moving truck pull up and scrape snow off your driveway because they know your husband is out of town. It was a stark contrast to our second move across the country to a newly built home in a town that was busy and booming. There was no community connection and we had no idea how to create one like what we had experienced in the past. It left us feeling isolated and really shown a spotlight on our need for community, not only personally but professionally.
We needed a community, a tribe in our second home and really never found one until half way through our time there. My business suffered and almost completely died because no one knew I existed. Over the years we have gotten better about finding our “people” and getting plugged into new neighborhoods and experiences quickly because we are better together as a community with friends and coworkers than alone and isolated. Not only does our family thrive but my business does as well.
How Do You Find Your Tribe
So how do you quickly find your tribe and get plugged into a community that in reality has no idea what it means to peal moving stickers off of furniture all the time? The simplest answer is to get your butt out of the house! Find shared interest groups, faith based, hobby based, or industry based. Make a point of introducing yourself and get curious about the people and the town you have moved to. It is so easy when we are removed from a place we were comfortable to compare the new place to the old. That is the quickest way to be labeled a “Negative Nancy” and be ignored.
So What’s Next
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