Your Friends Are Secretly Waiting for Someone to Just Make the Plan. Be That Person
Let me tell you something I've watched happen over and over again for more than 22 years.
People want to get together.
....they really do......they talk about it all the time.
"We should do something soon."
"Let's plan a night out."
"It's been too long, we need to hang."
....and then nothing happens.
Not because nobody cares.
But because nobody picks up the phone and actually makes the plan.
That gap right there? That's your opening.
Here's the truth most people never act on:
your friends are not waiting for a perfect event.
....they are waiting for YOU to just say
here's the date, here's the place, be there."
That's it. That is the whole thing.
You don't need a venue.
You don't need a budget.
You don't need a theme.
You need a date and a group chat.
Pick a day.
Any day two or three weeks out.
Text ten people something like this:
"I'm putting something together on the 19th.
Could be a backyard hang, could be a park thing, could be somebody's rooftop. You in?"
That's all it takes to get momentum moving!
Watch what happens next.
Someone says yes.
Then someone else does.
Then the person who was on the fence sees the replies coming in and suddenly they're in too.
Energy is contagious.
The moment you become the one who made the plan, people want to be part of it.
....I have done this NUMEROUS times when I was in San Francisco...and peopel LOVE to FEEL that they ALSO are part of "making it happen"...
And here's what you're actually building when you do this.
You're not just throwing a casual hang.
You're starting to build a reputation as the person who brings people together.
That reputation is worth more than any flyer, any ad, any fancy venue deal.
People remember the person who created the room.
Start with what you already have.
A backyard works.
A local park works.
A friend with a big living room works.
The location matters way less than you think.
What matters is that you committed to a date and you put it out there.
Make it dead simple for people to say yes.
No complicated RSVP process, no formal invite, just a text or a group message that makes it feel like the most natural thing in the world.
....because it is.
Here's something I've seen again and again.
The first gathering is never the best one (...but it could be ;-).
But it's the one that makes all the others possible.
You meet a few new people, you get comfortable being the host, and you walk away knowing something that you didn't before: this is actually easy.
The second one is easier than the first.
The third is easier than the second.
And before you know it, you're the person everyone looks to when they want a great night out.
So here's your one job TODAY:
Pull up your phone right now.
Open a group chat with ten people you genuinely like.
.....type "I'm throwing something together soon, who's in?"
....and hit send before you talk yourself out of it.
You don't have to know every detail yet.
You just have to move first.
The best party you ever host starts with one text.
Send it today....like: NOW!!!!
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Alf Marcussen
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Your Friends Are Secretly Waiting for Someone to Just Make the Plan. Be That Person
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