What has family and friends got to do with building a successful business? This might be your outburst on reading the title. But before answering your question, let me use this medium to say welcome. How has business been in the past days? I hope your answer will be positive?

Now back to providing an answering to your question. I hope you know that family and friends have a big influence on your personal life. Also when it comes to business, their influence may be felt either directly or indirectly.

Before I proceed further, let me ask you the following questions:

Have you ever gone all out to do something, not because you want to but for the sake of a loved one?

Have you been inspired in the past to achieve success by a family or friend?

Have you been on the verge of failing but on remembering a loved one, you picked up courage and applied more effort because you can't afford to break the news of failure to your loved one?

Have you ever noticed that athletes, when on the track usually have their family and friends by the side cheering them up?

I believe you are beginning to see reasons with me. From history, it has been observed that humans are sometimes inspired by people they love or respect. As an entrepreneur, I have also been motivated by loved ones.

Now in building a successful business, your family and friends can be of use in the following ways:

1. Your family members can inspire you to press on even when things are not going as expected. On many occasions, I have heard this statements "I am doing it for the kids" or "I can't afford to let my wife down." I have seen men taking risk they wouldn't have taken on their own all in the name of love.

2. Your family and friends can be a source of encouragement to you. When you have positive thinking friends, they might influence you positively. Good friends can boost your spirit. Friends who believe in possibilities, not friends who believe it can't be done.

In conclusion, I want you to bear in mind that the way you relate with your family and friends will surely affect your personal life either positively or negatively and this will in turn reflect on your business.

With these few points, I rest my pen.