The next ingredient is social. social relationships are very important. Once you are feeling well, going out, and spending time with people like you is it's very nice. Doing the activities that you love. finding people to do those activities with is always better than doing them alone. Some people need a lot of social time, some people are more reserved, and they need less.
This is something different for every individual. And that's why we find that for you to find the recipe you need to understand yourself and then understand how much social time do you need social creating a healthy social environment that includes trust, compassion, respect and reciprocity? It's very important, Molly. Okay, that was Spanish. So when you are trying to build your life, your recipe for an extraordinary life, you have to think how much social time do you need on a weekly basis. We like to take a week because a week includes working time on a cruise the weekend.
So it's enough time for you to try and fit everything that you want to do. But it's not too overwhelming. If you try to do it on a daily basis, depending if it's a working day or if it's a weekend, it's gonna be a little bit more challenging. But a week, you can see at a glance, what you can feed where, when we're speaking about social that involves, in my case, for example, I play squash every time I go to play squash that social time. So I'm nurturing my body because I'm doing exercise, but at the same time, I'm hanging out with friends, and I always catch up with them ask a little bit what's going on. So that social for me, for you can be something different.
So again, up when you are creating your recipe for an extraordinary life and you are including the activities that you want to do. If you are creating new activities. Maybe you need to create new social circles. So that will require a little bit of time. But if it's something that you love doing is not going to be difficult in my case. from Spain, I came to Canada in 2012.
So I didn't have a lot of friends here when I came. And I was using Samantha's friends a lot. But then I started to do new activities that I didn't do before. And then I didn't know people. So what I did, I use meet up, meet up. It's a great website where you can find people that are doing activities.
So I started to join different groups. And then I have a group that they go mountain biking, I have another group that they need to play board games. I have another group that they do a lot of hiking almost every weekend, they are going out to hike. And now I have started my own group skating inline skating or rollerblading, because I used to do that in Barcelona. And I couldn't find people here. So I just created my own group.
So that's a social circle that I am creating from scratch. And that's something that it's fulfilling for me. It's something that I like doing. For our business. We go out to a lot of networking events and courses and we also have some social relationships. There, I want to let you know that when you are changing your life, it's very normal that your social circles may change.
In the case of Samantha, she was sharing that she stopped drinking. I was witness that when she came back from New Zealand, so she she was living in Canada, she went to New Zealand. When she was there, she told everybody that she was allergic to alcohol. And that helped her quit completely. But when we came back together to Canada, we went to see all friends from here. And I can tell you that I witnessed that a lot of those old friends.
They didn't understand. They were missing that Samantha that they used to know. And they didn't like the new one that much because she was doing different things they do and relate with her as much and they just didn't know how to deal with it and some people, they just stopped talking to her and some others they adjust, but she started to create new relationships with other people. So this is what happens also when you are changing yourself. When you are evolving, your relationships may change, or people may kind of fade away, new people will come in, it's good, and it's great. So you just have to balance that and decide how much time you want to spend.
So a good exercise here is the same way that we did with family, you can write a list of people that you want to hang out with. We do this every now and then we have a list on our fridge, people that we haven't seen people that we want to make sure that we have seen this month or next month, what kind of activities we would like to do with them. And then we just write it there. And then we try to put it in the calendar. Because once it's in the calendar, it's happening. If not, it's very easy to just let it be and then Time passes really fast, life is busy and then we never get to it.
So I invite you to create a list with three to 10 like people that you would like to see in the next month. Try to think about activities that you can do with them, and then try to connect with them and see when you can make that happen. Okay, I hope this video was helpful and we will see you in the next one.