4 Kinds Of Friends That Are Hindering Your Success

4 Kinds of Friends That Are Hindering Your
Success
By Johnspeak Uwangue (Motivational
Speaker, Talent Manager and Coach)
If success is what you seek in life;
business, career, Job, Marriage,
relationship etcetera, then you must learn
to avoid these four kinds of friends.
Friends are supposed to help us grow,
discover those unique abilities and
strength we never knew we had. But if
you always find yourself slowing down in
the pursuit of your vision, dreams or ideas,
you need to check the friends you keep.
It's easier to always blame our strategies
and enemies for our failures but
oftentimes, our principles may be right but
our so called friends may be the ones
working against our success directly or
indirectly.
This week, I will be sharing with you just
four kinds of friends out of many that are
hindering your success.
- The Parasitic
Parasitic friends are those who are always
taking from you and not giving back in
return. The most annoying part of this
kind of friends is that they will spend your
money or use your stuff and keep theirs.
This kind of friends always pretend not to
have meanwhile, they may even have more
than you. One easy way to know this kind
is that when you refuse or doesn't have to
give them, they automatically turn you to a
bad person. Parasitic friends will never let
you go until they have sucked you dry. In
the pursuit of your vision, dreams or ideas,
you will have to let go of them otherwise,
they may end up taking the little resources
that you should have used to take your
vision, ideas, talents and dreams forward.
- The Pharisees and The Saducees
The P&S friends are those friends who
always feel that they know more than you.
They will always point out a reason or two
why you may not succeed sometimes with
proofs and their personal experiences to
back it. These friends are too far to see
and too sad to see. I used to have friends
like this who always told me to abandon
my vision and ideas and follow the herd.
They always told me that dreams don't
come through in this part of the world.
They don't care about your vision, and
can't fathom why a little boy or girl like
you could have such a great vision.
- The Mockers and Complainers
Being mocked can have psychological
effects on people especially if they are your
friends. It's easier to turn deaf to the
mockeries of people who are outside your
friendship zone. Complaining weakens
great talents. When you hangout with
Complainers, in a short time, you may find
yourself complaining too instead of
strategizing on how to move forward.
Please understand that we need critics in
order to be able to perfect our products
and services, but when those critics are
our friends and are doing it out of hatred
then, there is a problem.
- The Unsupportive
Unsupportive friends are those who never
complain or mock you but will never
support your dreams and vision. In the
pursuit of our dreams, we need all the
supports that we can get. Unsupportive
friends will leave you to struggle alone
without a little support and are always the
first to complain that you've abandoned
them when you start reaping the fruits of
your labours.
Whether we want to or not, we all need
friends. Friends who are not parasitic,
Pharisees and Saducees, Unsupportive,
Mockers and Complainers, but friends who
will stand by us through the thick and thin
until we start reaping the fruits of our
labours.
Succeed You Must!