Is Relationship Important?

The world is round.  Every tiny little particles of it are connected and related.  When one move surely creates impact and change.  This simple truth is most of the time forgotten that we live life caring less of others but ourselves.

As I’ve known,

“Relationship, not achievement & acquisition, is what matter most in this life”

People have short memory of what you’ve achieved in life, at times they’d even see you bragging when you show off. And worse, some will only remember what you have done not or get envious.

If you want to achieve greater things in life, start with maintaining relationships with people around you.  And what benefits it will give you?

1. Happy environment.  – For good relationship creates positive ambiance.
2. Easier  life. – Positive people ease the burden of the challenges of life.
3. Increase in contribution - More heads working together is better than one.
4. Good mem’ries - All of you would always remember how great and happy the relationship is.

I remember a great story of a man named Ping Sotto.

Mr. Ping has the position in a firm, a top multinational oil company.  During a training he conducted, he shared a piece of his life.  He shared that he was offered an executive position in the firm but he declined it.  He was judged and criticize for a while with his decision but the importance of what he chose was his shield from all this.  He shared that the reason he chooses to decline it is so he can focus his time on his children’s growth.  For awhile, he became a house husband playing and taking care of his children while he and his wife were building something.  His friends were laughing and making fun of him thinking what a waste of talent he was.

With the important things intact, his children and family, he didn’t pay attention to the people who made fun of him and continued pursuing for what he believes in.

After sometime, those who made fun of him, people who are on the top like CEOs and EVPs, are going to him asking him how to manage things with family, work and all.  Because now, Mr.Ping lives a life that most of us will want to have.  He owns most of the top 10 retail gas station in Metro Manila of the multinational oil firm he previously worked into.  Both Mr.Ping and his CEO friends are rich but the difference was that Mr.Ping have a wonderful children who were raised well.  And he has a close family relationship that’s envied by his friends.  On the other hand, his CEOs and EVPs friends have children that talked back on them and party their life away.  Their success and choice of time spent left them their career and a broken relationships.

Such story isn’t a surprise for me for I have my own share and have heard more of others.  But the relevance of this experiences opened my eyes and my life to value relationship more than anything else.

As they say, the top is lonely and empty with only one person, that’s You.