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Break Away From Friends and Families Who Want to Ruin your Business.

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If success is truly desired, it is often advised to check your circle of friend and acquaintance properly, friends hold a very serious power over our lives and they are capable of turning our lives into something we are either proud of or displeased about.

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I was having a discussion with a young man who owns a barbing salon and he was lamenting so much about how he was broke and in so much debt, I was surprised because from what I saw he was always having customers in his business place, he was always working real hard, but he went further to explain that majority of the job he does was free.

Who runs a free business I screamed aloud, he was telling me about how he could not resist the urge with pleasing his friends who wanted to have their hair cut for free and since he also gets free things from them whenever he goes to their business place, it is a kind of vis-à-vis situation.

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I sat down to study their way of life and I realized that their circle of friend were not ready to have financial growth, they are satisfied with eating for a day and they are just fine with it. For anyone of them to break off from that low mentality, he must be ready to break free from that circle of friend and possibly even change location.

Every business person requires a push at one point or the other in their life, surrounding yourself with the wrong friends will never get you the motivation you require to succeed, take a look at the example I gave above again, the circle of friends are comfortable with destroying each other’s business instead of helping each other build their business.

Friends are supposed to be a source of encouragement so if you have friends who are not concerned with watching your business grow, it is important to stay away and break free from friends like that, I think it is even more easy when your group of friends are entrepreneurs like you, they understand the game so all of you can help each other up together but I was surprised to see how these group of young business men choose to live, taking advantage of each other and ruining each other’s business.

This is not applicable to just friends, even some relatives fall into this category as well, if you have family members who are just bent on taking from your business all the time then you should have a re-think by either explaining the situation of things to them or just changing location completely to save your business.

Thank you for reading, I am @oluwatobiloba.