Building healthy and strategic relationships is critical in the journey of destiny. Life is designed in a way that everyone has a longing for meaningful relationships with others . We have to love everyone because every person has value and we have to be available to be of help to anyone who needs our help when we are in a position to do so. However, when it comes to relationships, everyone cannot be your close friend and you cannot be everybody’s close friend therefore you have to be strategic in building the right relationship. Every relationship you are involved in will serve a purpose in your life
Broadly speaking, there are four categories of relationships in your life ond mine and they serve different purposes. The first is what I referred to as destiny relationship.
Destiny relationships are the closest relationship to you. This is relationship with your spouse and your children and your immediate family, including your siblings and parents. These relationships are destiny relationships because they serve the purpose in your life that is the most important. So the strategic thing to do about this relationship is to do everything within your means to make sure that this relationship is thriving and that you are nurturing it. This destiny relationship will not always be at its best automatically. You will have to be strategic and intentional to make it thrive.
Secondly, there is what I call a negative relationship. This is a relationship that will serve a negative purpose in your life, such as violating your boundary, depleting you, dragging you into things that would derail you including petty jealousy, quarrels, misunderstanding, introducing you to change the foundation of boundaries and values, and so on, and so forth . The strategic thing to do about the second relationship is to completely delete such relationships. Make sure you recognize them, and be decisive in deleting or at best keep them at a distance from you
The third relationship is a relationship with those that you are in their lives to help them achieve their dreams, encourage them, build them up and invest into their success .In this relationship you want to be the rainbow in the person’s cloud .
The fourth relationship is the relationship that serves the purpose of building you up, encouraging and supporting you to achieve your own dreams and aspirations in life. Just like you were a rainbow in someone’s cloud in this fourth relationship, someone will also be a rainbow in your cloud.
Why is it important to build strategic relationships?
One, they provide avenues to share challenges and victories.
Two, they provide opportunities to share your special moments of joy and celebration .
Third, they provide you support and encouragement to achieve your goals and dreams and overcome some of your challenges on your way to destiny. They can also help you uncover some of the things that you are not able to see yourself.
Fourth, those who you also help and who give you a sense of significance and make your life meaningful through the support you give them.
Here are Few tips that can help you nurture those relationships
One, Stay in touch with them.
Two, Celebrate them during their special moments
Three, Offer help to them when needed
If you do these three intentionally , you will build these relationships over time.. They will serve you well as I have mentioned earlier. Remember, you can’t just walk into strangers at the time you need special people to play special roles in your life. You must have built the relationships.
As I conclude , I have shared with us about why it is important to build strategic relationships and tips to help you nurture those relationships
