Relationships - you make it or break it!

As you know, friends are great influencers of our growth as human beings. In other words, your friends have the power to make or break you.. This is because you let them in to your life and give them access to your secrets and pieces of information that others do not have. Forming a friendship with someone else is important as it helps to give you insight on how to deal with issues in your current or future love relationships. Due to the significance of the role that friends play in one's life, it is important to carefully select friends that will promote your growth as an individual or person rather than the opposite. My previous blog talks about success and how it can affect friendships since some friends are built or destined for a particular phase in your life. So how do you identify friends that are tailored to your growth or life goals? You test them. It is important to test the people who are close to you. Asking questions or making requests that can assist in identifying ...

Success is what everyone wants. It is what everybody craves and chases. We seek to gain a fraction of success in every thing we do. From waking up to making an impact at work that gets you recognition or hoping to do well in a course at school, success is all anyone thinks of and hopes for in our world today.  Achieving success is the reason we have role models in our lives. We model our actions and decisions after these people with the hope of being like or even better than them. However, people tend to forget that achieving success comes with a price that in most instances seem difficult to pay. The path to success mostly does encounter loneliness,  betrayal and doubts. To be actually successful or gain success in anything, we need to sacrifice few things in order to gain the greater good.  Our sacrifice to achieve success may interfere with the friendships we have built over the years.  Some friends can put you in a position to choose between continuing on the pat...

The new year is a year of new things, new insights, new ways of tackling problems or situations that you were not able to solve in the past year. It's a year of venturing into businesses or taking advantage of investments that the past year could not entertain. It's a time period of growth and a time when you should not be where you were last year. If you have a child and that child was in the same grade for two years and didn't improve, you would consider that there's a problem with the development of that child. That is because with every new year, growth is expected. Now, everyone has new year resolutions at the start of the year to achieve growth or enhancement in their lives but fail to achieve this in most cases by the end of the year.  New year resolutions are not successful because people do not have the right idea. It's just that they do not use the right idea correctly. People make those resolutions so broad and unachievable. For Instance, if...