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Lasting Friendships are not an Accident

What makes one person a great friend and another individual a person of question? How relationships develop and what makes friendships lasting?

What is it that really creates a friendship that is lasting? How do we develop these connections that make a difference in our life? What type of people do we really care about and want to make connections with.

Look back in your life and think about the people that have made a difference. Think about the teachers who aided your journey through school and now life. Why were they important to you and why are they still remembered? Think about those friends who have helped you through a difficult time. They were there when we really needed them and they propped us up.

As the old saying goes, "Friends in our life are like pillars on our porch. Sometimes they hold us up, and sometimes they lean on us. Sometimes it's just enough to know they're standing by."

Think about the last three people that made you feel special and appreciated in some way. Think of those people in our life that we really enjoy spending time. Who are your heroes in life? They may be family, neighbors, religious, business or just someone we have read about. How have they inspired us and why are they still a part of our memory and to some degree our life? Why are all these people important to us? Because they all care.

Sit down and wrote out what characteristics in a person that you really enjoy and appreciate. Seek out those that have these types of personal traits. For example, being able to trust the person may be very important to you, a solid sense of honesty and compassion would be an important trait to find in deciding on a possible friend. How about those people that can be counted on in all situations? Reliability? A willingness to help?

Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
~ Stephen R. Covey

A person who lifts and builds others up?
Service to others?
Great passion for daily life?
Enthusiasm for everything they do?
Loyalty?
A positive mental attitude?
Upbeat?
Focused?
Good conversationalist?
A sense of what is important in the world and what is not?

If we can build relationships with those people that compliment our own personalities, our lives will be enriched by the new world of positive friendships.

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