Facts About Trust...

Trust is one of the main pillars of any relationship in addition to love; which keep us together even when we are not trustworth. Popularly, trust is most talked about while refferring to relationships like leadership, friendship, marriage and in a few cases while talking about family relationships.

It's indeed true that trust is a fundamental pillar of any relationship, no matter what it is aimed at, so, for anyone to have a good (healthy) relationship with the people around him or her, trust is a good catalyst...

Ok, here are some of the reknown facts about trust anyone must know; miss them and you'll always suffer a weakness in the relationships you have...

Fact 1
Trust can not be forced.
Trust is a voluntary feeling of confidence in someone's response towards given conditions whose results has effects on us; these can be positive or negative.

Fact 2
Trust is an in-built character that develops with time, knowledge and understanding.

Fact 3
Trustworthiness can be learnt.

Fact 4
To trust people will many times seen as trustworthiness.

Fact 5
Sometimes one does not need alot of time to trust someone. Sometimes out of things that look simple comes comes the reasons why people trust us.

Fact 6
Trustworthiness can both be seen in the way we act and speak. In fact, it has a lot to do with the way we speak and what we speak.

Fact 7
Trustworthiness is delicate; it can easily be broken or built - be careful with simple things that you carelessly do... may be that is the reason they don't trust you.

Fact 8
Trust is a feeling; a mentality... an atitude. It's a feeling of security that someone has in you.

Fact 9
Lost trust may take you a lifetime to build, yet buiding tust for the first time may take you even a few seconds; just a while...

Fact 10
Learning to be trustworthy takes more than knowing the difference between right and wrong, yet maintaining it is as simple as knowing the difference between right and wrong.

Fact 11
Trustworthiness lasts longer than any scam can stand. It's stronger than any trick, and is more reliable than any bribe.

Fact 12
Trust has no monetary value. Like goodness, in fact as a character of goodness, trust can not be fully rewarded... in any materialistic way.

Trust is a componet of character that in any society, in any relationship.
You can travel from direction to direction while making enemies; if without it, or you can travel from direction to direction making friends with it... it's your choice!

The Best Bargain...

Before getting to the formula that will make you the best bargainer any merchant (business man or woman) has ever seen, these some of the facts you should know;

Fact #1:
Every business person is always willing and ready to give a discount on any commodity just to make sure he sales it off.

Fact #2:
Always, there is a lowest price for every commodity in the market.

Fact #3:
Price discrimination is a fact in many markets.

Fact #4:
Personality has a lot to do with prices, but status doesn't mean you'll get a commodity cheaper or expensive.

Fact #5:
Politely, humbly and in a friendly-funny way, proving to any business person that you're aware (informed) about the commodity (it's good and bad side) and the prevailing market price will earn you a discount.

Fact #6:
Patience will always earn you a discount before most business people if they realise it in you. It's good to wait for "rush-rush" customers to get what they want first and then follow with a bargain.

Fact #7:
It's good to survey the prevailing price(s) of a given good at both whole and retail sale. This will help you make a bargain in the way that doesn't irritate the saler but gives you an advantage.

Fact #8:
A customer that returns to the saler, in most cases, stands a chance to earn a discount, so it's good to always return to the person you last bought from a given commodity; it's good to know your suppliers... and continuously buying from them will earn you a discount.

Fact #9:
But, also a good new customer stands a chance to earn a discount, so, make sure the first impression you give earns you sympathy; a discount.

Fact #10:
Avoid places with fixed prices if you want to enjoy bargaining.

A good bargainer will always buy a commodity at the lowest price possible in the market. There's always the highest and the lowest price for a commodity, and every business person is always willing to sell at any price, but it's your responsibility to drag them to any "price-end".

O, however, many times salers prefer selling at a high price because this broadens their profit margine, so they will always try as hard to sell to you at a higher price.

While bargaining, always esnure that the sales person offers you his or her commodity at the lowest price possible, but this takes patience and good speech, so don't rush or you'll buy at the highest price available in the market.

When a sales person tells you a price, in most cases it means that the given price is the highest at which he or she can sale that given commodity to you, but not to all he can sale the same commodity.

In most cases, the "normal" price for a given commodity is always approximately 60% of the first given price, but a good bargainer stands a chance to drag it down to 30 or 40% of the first given price. If the first price was exaggrated or if the saler hasn't made any sales or is tired, has encountered a loss, has already sold at abnormal prices, is winding up the stock and has already made a lot of profits, is impressed or challenged by the bargaining power or language, or can still earn a profit even when he or she sales it at 30 or 40% below the first quted price.

I guess this is a good guide to lead you to the market. Let's go shopping...!

The Rich & The Poor...

It's true that the rich and the poor share but a few characters in common.

Let's consider this;-
- A richman will run to people everytime he earns a fortune, but a poor man will run away from people every time he gets an advantage in an opportunity.

- Every richman is a giver, but more poor people are sting. In fact it's because they're stingy that they're poor or grow poor and poorer.

The giving or sharing is why rich men grows rich and richer while the stingy and unselfish character in poor people is the reason the poor turn poor and poorer even when they are overwhelmed by opportunities.

Keys to Happiness...

Everyone has keys to happiness.
These keys to happiness are constantly three in kind and every human has them.
The three keys include;
1) The key to your own happiness.
2) The key to your most loved one's happiness.
3) The key to the happiness of all those around you.

So, have you opened some happiness today?
Remember, you have the keys, so go out there and make you and someone happy.

Don't Rush...

Don't rush...
What's the rush for?
Tommorow isn't too far from now...
You'll soon be old...
You'll enjoy these things and more of them...
And you'll soon see the reason why I tell you to be patient;
soon after this, you'll analyse and understand many concepts in life.

Tommorw is a long way from now,
The future is now and then
And a lot lays bettween now and then.

That's why patience is necessary...

Be patient!

All That Matters..

At the end of the day,
All that matters is safety, happeness and satisfaction,
And this has alot to do with one's sense of responsibility.

Keeping People... Keeping Friends...

All my life I've always loved to stay at peace with people, and with friends, this has always been a prime objective. There's not one friend in my life, no, they're really many and I thank God for each of them.

When one talks about relating with other people, I know that it's not easy, in fact, naturally, we live all our life trying to learn how to live with people; both friends and family members around us.

There is not one principle that can summarise the principles one should follow while relating with people. But, as a Christian, I surely believe that "love your neighbor as you love your self" is a very important principle when it comes to humans relating with humans.

I have friends that have stayed and friends that have gone, even those that have died, so today I know that some people have come to stay and others will leave soon after their purpose in our life is over.

It's good to know that people have weaknesses, even the people you think of as very perfect or above the normal human standard of goodness. This is why every human will at least experience a conflict, blame or something of the sort in life. Now, failure to know that humans have weaknesses means you means you're far imperfect than a normal human being; this is the reason learning to forgive and compromising with fellow humans should be among the first lesson of every human in human life.

To me, people are such a simple thing to live with if you want to; you see, if this is a goal in your life then you'll spend a lot of your time learning it, and you'll learn it cheerfully.

I've had friends that have pleased me so... much, and friends that have hurt me really bad. I've experienced the two extreme ends of relationships at there worst and best edges and today I know the good and bad in them, even how to live cheerfully with them; it's possible.

Meetings new people is a pleasure I've not denied myself, even though somehow, sometimes I've regreted having met some people. It's true that what you meet many times, every day, will dominate you thoughts, so to me, people; meeting and living with people donates my mind. I'll talk about it, on various subjects because my experience with them is quite big.

Life is a long journey dominated by meeting and living with people. Let's tirelessly take plessure in doing this... because, it's through it that we learn the principle of relationships... something that will teach you how to live with the angels, that is, if you have hopes of going to heven like me.

The Past Few Days...

Mmmh... One may wonder what I've learnt in the past few days, and I guess without letting you know you'll never know... Anyway, this doesn't mean I don't take pleasure in letting you know...
The past few days have been of great help. I've learnt quite a lot of staff.

Let's look through some of them down here;
1) Sometimes you don't have to attract people to yourself, nature will draw them to you and if you're of good character they'll always be glad and thankful that they met you.

2) Sometimes you don't have to confront those who offend you; your silence will cause them a shame that will push them away from you.

3) Fools don't deserve mercy, so don't waste even your patience on them; you'll only get irritated.

4) Forgiving someone for his fault will free your heart from heartaches, but keeping anger will only make you loose focus, so don't waste time, let anger take but only a short time on your mind.

5) Lack of money doesn't mean lack of peace. You may have know money but still have all things you need, and this yields more satisfaction than money.

6) Pain lasts only for a while, but memories will always caution you even when scars are gone.

7) A free effort offered may sometimes reward you more than more a service over charged.

8) Think about friends more often; this brings more happeness than knowing that they think about you.

9) One can leave longer without a lover than he or she can live without food; but, love found once can satisfy you more than a million meals.

10) A person that doesn't learn from experience is more prone to trouble than one that doesn't learn from class.

Otherwise, friends, these are a summary of some of the lesson I've learnt in the past few days.

I guess they mean something good to you.

Have some fan today... it may be the last time you'll have good mememories... those friends around you.