Relationships have an ebb and flow to them just as the Seasons of nature do. A rhythm all their own. A process of planting, nurturing, growing, maturing, and sustaining.

People flow through your life, both good and bad. We naturally gather the good to us, and avoid the bad. But in gathering the good to us, are we maintaining these relationships? Are we planting deep roots that will survive, mature, and continue to grow and bloom, or are we planting shallow roots? Roots that are capable of creating a relationship, but many times are based on shallow selfish motives, and will not survive past a short time?

These are the questions you need to ask yourself, when creating new relationships, in the day-to-day world, as well as in the Online world. Are you creating relationships simply to say, Hey world, Look how many friends I have. Or are you creating relationships with depth and meaning behind them. Genuine interest. Genuine caring.

Friendships and relationships that are based on genuine interest, trust and caring, be they business relationships, family or friends, will all have their individual seasons, just as the seasons of nature do.

Some of these relationships will be Annuals. We plant the seeds, the relationship grows, and blooms, but then fades away for a while. The seeds are still there though, so the relationship re-grows after a while and continues in a sort of hi’s and lo’s cycle of life. Distance, Time, and Life are the big factors in this cycle. So we enjoy the blooms while they are there, and look forward to the next time that the blooms grace our eyes.

Other relationships will be Perennials. Once planted, nurtured and grown, these relationships continue to grow, and bloom on a regular basis, year after year. The blooms may fade from time to time, but they come back quickly. The relationship itself is always there and visible, continuing to grow, and creating beauty in our lives many times throughout the year.

And then we will have the relationships that are the Live Oaks in our lives. These are the relationships that we grow, that form a canopy of comfort, love and familiarity over our lives on a daily basis. We can count on these relationships to always be there, to always lend us a shelter beneath their bows. We may have started with these relationships already there at birth, or we may have planted them when we were young, and grown along side them, gaining strength from them, and knowing that we can always rest easy in their shade.

The important thing to remember is that ALL relationships are important. Whether they are occasional, regular, or constant. They each need tending in their own way, to maintain their vitality, strength and growth.

How is Your garden growing? Are there relationships in your life that need some attention? Go and tend your garden. Watch the blooms of life grow.

Yours in Friendship, Caring, and Gratitude,

Email: steve@steve-harlow.com
Skype: steveharlow
Phone: (252)268-2202

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Important personal and business relationships
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Up until recently, there was no real term Appreciation Marketing. It was simply a way of doing business that rapidly declines with every advance in technology. The business world has become a blindingly fast paced environment, and showing simple Gratitude and Appreciation to customers and prospects is fast becoming a lost art.
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As a child, you had Super Powers! Literally! A child can lie in the grass, look at the clouds, and see never-ending images of sailing ships, bunny rabbits, clown faces, and whatever their whimsy allows them. A child can look out at the new fallen snow in the morning, and immediately envision Snow Forts with Walls and Turrets, and bridges, and rooms, and, and, and… A child can look at a small boat on a small pond, and see Great Pirate Ships, sailing over a mighty and endless sea, battling for treasure. They can “BE” Soldiers, and Astronauts, and Doctors, and a Martian if they so desire!

The ability to simply look at an everyday object, yet literally SEE it as something else… something BIG… something Awesome… Something Powerful! Let there be no doubt THAT is a Super Power!

But somewhere along the way someone comes up with a big ol’ chunk of Kryptonite, and ruins Superman’s Super Powers. They make his Super Powers weak, and totally ineffective. They make him “Ordinary”.

This is what happens to OUR Super Powers as well. We get a little older, and begin listening to LIFE, instead of continuing to listen to Whimsy. Our powers of imagination weaken, and become ineffective, and everything becomes “ordinary”. WHY? What is wrong with Imagination?

Absolutely NOTHING!

As a matter of fact, if you have any ambition of making a living Online, then you had better be ready to dig deep back into that vault of Whimsy, and come up with a Pirates Treasure Chest full of Creativity and Imagination! You had better find yourself a lead-lined container to bottle that Kryptonite back up, so that YOUR Super Powers can re awaken!

Does this mean that you are to go out and run your business through Childlike fantasies? Of course not!
But it does mean that you have to begin looking at your business, at your offer, at your products, whatever, and however it is that your business operates on, and find new innovative ways to market and promote that business.

There are literally Thousands upon Thousands of “new competition” entering the market place daily. If you do not stand out… If you do not stand above the crowd… If you do not find creative and visionary methods of promoting your business, you will simply be ordinary, and lost in the flood of ordinary that is surrounding you.
You’ve got to research your competition, and find ways to do things either differently, or at the very least, more aggressively than the rest.

Again, thinking back to Childhood, children run HARD! They Play LOUDLY! They are exuberant, joyful, fun-loving, and above all they are PASSIONATE about their childhood thoughts and dreams!

These are the exact same characteristics that will propel you to success in business. Hard work, Joy, Love, and PASSION for what you are doing. Without it, the rainbows turn gray, the Unicorns turn back into Mules, and your business is simply another grain of sand on the beach.

Find Your Passion! LIVE Your Passion! The result will be Abundance and Success in your Life!

Here Is To Your PASSIONATE Success!!!

Email: steve@steve-harlow.com
Skype: steveharlow
Phone: (252)268-2202

I find MY Passion and Whimsy HERE:
http://www.JoinTeamProsperity.com
http://www.Compassionate-Prosperity.com
1879 Arba Jason Rd. La Grange, NC 28551

Pay It Forward Day, until recently, I wasn’t even aware that this site existed: http://payitforwardday.com/ What an outstanding site. How better to share the daily abundance that you receive with others? How better indeed… How about through Random Acts of Kindness: http://www.actsofkindness.org/ What can that one Random Act of Kindness that you perform, actually achieve? You’ll probably never know, but the possibilities are truly endless. Watch the video for more info on this amazingly powerful gift from the heart.