There are a few basic ingredients that universally apply to the subject of business. These principles represent foundational pillars for success in business and real life too. Building and maintaining relationships is foremost on that priority list. The process starts at birth when we are miraculously born into this new world and immediately drawn to our mother's breast and her indescribable nurturing love for this new creation, you!

As we grow up through childhood, adolescence, and into adulthood, the relationships we establish along the journey begin to form our choices, habits and directions in life. The plethora of these influences continually morph, while forming the diversified combinations of attributes and feelings that eventually we are not only drawn to but actually become. Associations with similar types of people now strongly influence our life forever. Life's decisions suddenly take on an importance like never before. We are now picking places to live, jobs, careers and life mates based on those beliefs and relationship influences.

This is when your relationship building skills come to fruition and the merging of all these previous experiences and lessons come to the decision making, life changing crossroads. So now is as good as time as any to ask you, how successful has your relationship building been? As Christians, we have had the benefit of studying the life of Jesus to see how he built relationships and the importance he placed upon them. He even calls us "friend", (John 15:15) which is a humbling encouragement to say the least. Much of His life's story is sad to read. As hard as He tried, some just wouldn't accept Him as a friend and indeed turned on Him viciously at times. On numerous occasions many let Him down, even some of His chosen twelve. But He depended only on the loving relationship He had with His Father. The only dependable, unconditional, unwavering and forever faithful relationship He could possible have. The love of the Father.

If you have experienced similar letdowns and unfair treatment from your relationships as Jesus experienced, please consider as He did, turning to the One and Only true and perfect Relationship, with Jesus Christ as you Lord and Savior. He will never leave you nor forsake you and that is His promise. He just asks that you believe in your heart and speak with all your conviction that He is your only salvation and source of perfect peace, happiness and most importantly, a personal relationship that will last forever. I implore you this very day to make this personal declaration and know for sure in your heart that this relationship is guaranteed to be the best one you will ever make in your life.