How To Make New Friends | 6 Vital Keys to A Successful Friendship
Friendship is very important for your social and mental development.
I know many people have made a lot of friends but still yet they fail to keep those friends as a result of their characters or the way they behave/act when they are with their friends. Then you might have been asking yourself! What are the keys to a successful friendship. Well, most of the reasons and methods are not that far-fetched.
Although the keys to a successful friendship are known to us but yet, we still fail to realize it.
What then are the Keys To A Successful Friendship?
1) BUILD YOUR FRIENDSHIP ON COMMON INTERESTS:
One of the keys to a successful friendship is for you to make sure you build your friendship with others based on you and your friend's common interest.
There are a lot of things that draws us to others © an hobby, a common sport, a religious exercise, an outdoor activity, etc — For example, I make new friends due to my love of wrestling , WWE to be precise. Also, I make new friends as a result of the passion I have for technology and Media activities like what I'm doing now (blogging). We can meet new friends and use this point to build up a successful friendship.
2) ALWAYS REMEMBER THE GOLDEN RULE:
This is another vital key to a successful friendship. Remember the Golden Rule which states that, "do unto others what you want others to do to you." We can't expect others to be our friends if we don't treat them well. But on the other hand, if we treat our our already gotten friends or the ones we just met well, there is every tendency that, he or she will treat you the same way or even more than how you treated him or her and this will eventually lead to a successful friendship.
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3) LEARN TO BE HONEST — Always tell the truth:
Honesty is also another vital key to building a successful friendship.When we are honest with anyone and everyone, they will tend to get closer to us and become our friends. Your friends should technically or openly tell you the truth, rather than lying to keep you happy.
But still yet, your happiness will be short-lived — For example, both you and your friend should be straightforward when it comes to discussions about both your love lives, work, fashion, romance and many other things.
Learn not to hurt, abuse or instigate fear in the mind of your friend when you are being honest to him/her. If you are abusive or hurtful, your friendship might come to an end quickly.
4) ADOPT THE POWER OF POSITIVITY — Always be Positive:
Positivity is also another key to a successful friendship.
A positive-minded person always attracts new friends closer to himself or herself. Never say bad or negative things about others. Always see the good and positive side because no one wants others to speak on or realize their negative sides.
So make it a policy to always to appreciate people for their positive sides but never their negative ones.
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5) ACKNOWLEDGE AND APPRECIATE THE DIFFERENCES IN OTHERS:
Everyone is different and unique is his own way. If we acknowledge the differences in others and also appreciate them we are unlocking an important and valuable key to a successful friendship. Always remember that everyone is unique creation.
Take for instance, if you walk into coffee shop and they have only one flavor or if you walk into an ice cream shop and vanilla is the only flavor they have and it isn't even your favorite. As an adage says, VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE. So if everyone are the same, there will be chaos but as everyone varies differently, we will easily understand ourselves. If we learn to accept the differences that others possess, there might be a chance that we will learn from them.
6) VALUE THE OPINION OF OTHERS:
To unlock the key to a successful friendship, we have to value the opinion of our fellow friends and associates. Successful friendship doesn't come easily. We have to work for it. The opinion of others matters a lot and go a long way to determining some decisions on some aspect of our lives.
If we want to maintain a successful friendship with others, we must value their opinions because disrespecting their opinions will be seen as rude and unruly and will definitely make us lose our beloved friends and even those who you would like to be friends with.
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Now even with the little points I have listed above, it will surely guarantee you to keeping a lot of good people as friends.
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