We’ve been discussing the various aspects of your community: who you want them to be, who you must be for them to want you as a community member, and today, Where must you be to meet these people?

Here’s a fact: people with same values, principles and virtues tend to frequent the same places:

Gyms (patriots)

Churches

Synagogues

Restaurants

Grocery stores

Social events

Clubs—not nightclubs but speaking clubs, rotary clubs, etc.

Networking events

There are probably more but that gives you a good start. Once you have come up with these places, the next step is to devise an action plan, based upon the most leveraged ideas you’ve come up with, to schedule yourself time to get out to these places…

Define the Qualities You Must Possess to have the people you want in your community be attracted to you when you meet them.

We’ve been discussing the empowering or disempowering capabilities of your community. We’re pretty sure this is not news to you. Most have heard all the memes, and it just makes common sense—unfortunately it’s just not commonly used.

If you haven’t seen our previous episodes on this topic, we strongly recommend you catch up on them—they lay a lot of ground work for this one.

We discussed in the last episode specific strategies for choosing your community. This cannot be haphazard, and it will not automatically include your family and friends.

In fact, if you’re building your community correctly, choosing family and friends could be incredibly disempowering.

Define the Qualities and Characteristics of Your Ideal Community

We discussed in the last episode that your community is not as simple and straightforward as it initially appears. Just as a reminder: It’s not as simple as family and friends.

Community is not automatically defined as: family (either nuclear or extended), childhood friends, business associates, or college alumni.

As the Christ stated and was quoted: (He) said unto them, my mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God and do it.