Who are your friends?

Have been giving thought lately about friends. (Funny where you mind goes when you are sick and resting or in a ditch on the side of the road.)

The people I call friends are mostly battle tested standing by me when others walked away. Further often they piss me off, not because they are evil rather because they tell me what I need to hear and not what I want to hear!

How do I know? Because they will not benefit regardless, especially if I did what they asked – fact is often by telling me what they did they actually risked loosing a friend if I was the superficial, insecure, egotistical type (not to be confused with hypercritical or manipulative – totally different). Sometimes they commented on my observed behavior – painful to hear yet true.

• Who are your friends?
• How long have you known them?
• How do you quantify then?
• Do/would you trust them with your life?
• If it is true that your friends are your mirrors – what do your mirrors collectively say about you?

Success - Positive Character Traits

SO often people talk about success and achievement and yet they forget true success without ethics is not possible. We claim we want something yet we so often forget the why and the how.

• Why do you do what you do?
• How do you describe success or achievement?
• How do you define success?
• How do you define achievement?
• What characteristics do you associate with success?
• What is performance to you?
• What do you look for in people admire and respect?
• Do you have those traits?

Why do I ask these questions - because many are not fulfilled and seek things and people as well as create situations that are to our detriment instead of our benefit - why?

This post may make some of you think and may bore others - however it is my hope some have an ah ha moment!








Consider this - it is not what a person or firm says or does when things are wonderful - rather the true test of character is what happens and how business is conducted when nothing is going right!