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Repentance is the thought and action to correct a wrong and seek forgiveness from a person who is wronged. Often in religion, it is labeled as a sin and we look for ways to ask for forgiveness from the other party.

With different religious practice and belief, the way which religious believers ask for forgiveness also varies. At individual level, people ask for forgiveness directly from the person and are recommended and most effective and beneficial to individual mental and spiritual well being.

As for religious practice, there was a news article which talks about Pop Benedict XVI breaking the silence on child-sex abuse which was dismiss by victims who wants actions instead of remarks. While I was reading that news article, I remembered the informational show on Channel News Asia that showed how a Christian believer go on a holiday to walk and get a feel of what God went through in Israel the birth place of Jesus Christ and talked about how he was crucified.

The reason for crucified by the other religious leaders was partly due to the fact that he failed to respect other religions who did not at any point of time provoke him nor his religion at all and there he is going into a Muslim and Jewish religious nation and trying to spread his own belief and faith disrupting other people’s belief.

I’m not sure if it’s right or wrong, but one must be responsible for their personal mistakes which he did, and I respect him for that. Than going back to the news article, the phrase which states “must repent for sins and recognize mistakes” and when I think of the actual practice currently, it isn’t doing what they are saying. When a confession is made, believers were told that by welcoming God into their lives, their sins will be washed away and seek enlightenment.

I will agree partially as enlightenment that part, is same with all respective religion but when it comes to washing the sins away, that is neither practical nor realistic at all. Instead it is misleading people into thinking that they can continue to do bad things and yet ask for forgiveness, its identical to saying oh Law and Justice, I believe in law and will not commit the crime of robbing/kidnapping a person again, please pardon me of my wrong doings, don’t sentence me to jail please.

That to me sounds so wrong. What I understand of religion is whereby we should help one another, and not by expecting other people to carry the mistakes and be pardon without taking responsibility of our own actions. Perhaps it is precisely this misleading or misunderstanding of the true intention of God which caused the Pope sex scandal to keep on surfacing.

I do believe in religion but the moral, ethics and individual responsibilities still holds regardless of what we believe in, be accountable for our own actions.

Religion is what holds us to our own beliefs; it is like a moral light house guiding our way from dangerous costal shores.

So no matter what you believe in, make sure you are doing the right thing and be responsible for your own actions.

What kind of relationship do you want to have? Positive or negative relationship with people around you, are you going to force your way in and get killed in the process or approach with caution and respect for your competitors?

Think of the consequences before doing anything.

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Burden is complete opposite of responsibility. It is a form of negative responsibility or a troubling obligation. It is a load carried around with difficulty.

Separating the differences of responsibility and burden is what makes the rich and poor difference.

Rich turn every fault with a solution and benefit from it. They turn problems into solutions and close it as it is.

Poor on the other hand turn every fault into a new problem creating more problems and troubles which is related or associated with a fault thus implicating people who is linked with the event or incident. Those who fall into this poor category, will than turn a small problem into a big problem and create many more problems that than become a problem maker thus the poor get poorer day by day.

Within a family, watching the baby growing up from to a adult can be either a responsibility or a burden. Depending on how parents and grandparents who may help in taking care of the baby or child.

Rich people take care of their children as a form of responsibility within a limited period; giving only what they need thus they can better manage and be independent. This is the model way whereby it is tested proven and works for centuries, refer to documentary on how wild animals and beast take care of their babies and learn from them.

Poor people show care and concern for their children like a burden that will last till they die without time limit. They always try to shield their children from dangers thus children grow up weaker day by day and become more dependent on their parents.

To get rich, wealthy and successful, you have to learn to be independent, seek assistance instead of help.

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Dependable as mention in earlier post (blog entry) is on the basis of reliable, and it has to do with dependability as a person or system and it gets more in depth for deeper understanding.

Dependability is the ability to do things beyond what you expected of you, a person or a system. Such as troubleshooting, working with things beyond what you learn and learning it quick as well as putting it into application and coming up with a solution.

Majority of the people need not be dependable in terms of employment situation but ought and should be dependable in a family setting or situation so that the partner and the babies can depend on the person regardless of gender or age for survival and basic necessity like bringing the bread and bacon back home to the family.

It is the responsibility of doing and going beyond what is expected of a person or system to ensure everything goes smoothly without much and major disruptions.

In a family, the head of the family, most often the father figure is taking charge of ensuring that he brings back bread to the family to feed them thus leading to the phrase “sole breadwinner”. Bringing back bacon will be a bonus.

A father is needed not only to be reliable but also dependable, as he may be required to attend to sudden child health issues and family financial difficulties due to family complications and issues with parents in laws, disagreements or anything and everything which calls for attention in the family.

Due to globalization and increasing stiff competition, both parents need to be at work and thus the family is no longer depending on just a person to bring the bread back home. Instead in developing countries, both parents need to work in order to survive and afford to pay for necessities.

No matter how times have changed, generally the rule still applies as the male needs to be the bread winner because unless the law is changed to complete equality, where there is no law that enforce a guy to pay for the maintenance of his spouse and family than only can ladies and women be considered equal.

Thus if you who is reading this blog post right now, and happens to be a lady plus you are still single, start searching for a responsible partner now. It is easy to find a reliable partner but not a dependable partner. As to where to find it, I leave it to your imagination and experience.

Be responsible and accountable for the person who you will be living with for the rest of your life. Ladies, proceed with caution and make the right choice.

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Responsibility is an obligation that everybody has in different degree and duties.

It is be accountable, and be responsible for personal action by means of being reliable and dependable. It is the duty which every one of us has since birth. The complete opposite of responsibility is burden which all of us have as well.

There are numerous kinds of responsibilities entrusted to different individuals depending on their status, role and position. Social, moral, corporate, media, individual, professional, cabinet and ministerial responsibility is just some examples of the variations of responsibilities. I will write about the root of responsibility which boils down to individual responsibility.

Individual responsibility changes with time as we grow older and taking different roles and status depending on our personal development.

A duty of a baby to teenager is to grow up strong healthy and do their parents and family proud. The duty of a adult is to ensure that he/she in turn take care of their parents who help groomed them to who they are as an adult. As parents and grandparents, it is to ensure that their children grows up strong, independent with good grades to support themselves and their own newly formed family and also their parents and in-laws plus grandparents if financial ability permits them to do so.

In order to be accountable, and responsible for one’s actions, he/she must be given the right education knowledge and guidance to grow up into a fine example or as a role model.  While responsibility is a topic which no schools will talk and teach, it is what we learn as we grow, that helps us individuals understand the real definition of responsibility or each of their own duties and the roles they have play.

Experiences and knowledge help shape responsibility of an individual, given the wrong guidance, a child will learn about increasing burden than responsibility and increasing troubles and problems affecting the surrounding people slowing down their individual progress or growth in whatever areas.

Schools may be taught the word responsibility but it is only done on the very surface of that word without in depth studies on it as it varies from people to people thus it is largely learn based on experience.

Rich people have more areas to take note as compared to the poor people who in turn is dependent on people for help without helping themselves.

If you want to get rich, wealthy and successful, make sure you understand the real essence of being responsible which is further divided into two words which I have written above and that is to be reliable and dependable which sums up the whole of responsibility.

Have a clear understanding from anyway possible if you want to be rich and successful. The poor is getting poorer day by day due to the fact that they push away their individual responsibilities and make it a burden of their families and relatives thus they are poor.

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Secrets are confidential information which was not meant to be shared and be kept within the knowledge and circle among the parties involved only.

Everybody has secrets and it covers a lot of different areas be it health, business or relationship, depending on the impact in an event which should a secret leaks out, what impact of damage will it reflect on individuals, families and businesses thus in the higher middle income to rich and affluent families often have a price tag to every secrets.

How much secrets can a person keep, and how long did the secret last before leaking or is it always safe with the person? There are many factors which everybody can test and sound out on anybody to find a trustworthy person.

The ability to safeguard a secret is c direct and straightforward reflection of an individual on his or her integrity, honesty, creditability and reputation of himself/herself. The better you are at safeguard secrets, the more money and wealth you will receive at the end of the day.

Look at Tiger Woods, reports have mention that his inner circle of friends even help him cover out his scandal and offered to pay the ladies in some previous reports to keep it under the table and from the public media. On the other side, we have the ladies who cannot wait to spill the beans to a short term fame and money for their one-time income for selling their story to the media.

In business, especially secrets dealing with personal, business, the more you help them safeguard the secrets, the more you will benefit as well on a continuity basis which can be considered reciprocal and passive income source.

Before the fall of Tiger Woods scandal, the golf industry was seeing their business media attention and viewership increasing, shortly after the scandal broke free, golf related businesses and individual professional golfers experience a dip in their wallets and in the accounts for individuals and businesses.

The ladies on the other side could enjoy the benefits of being treated like a queen if they keep it under the tabs but they choose not to for unknown reasons which does not make logical sense to me, emotions got the better of them. Committing a suicidal step to their reputation and personal creditability, telling all others potential business partners and friends that “don’t ever let me know your secrets or you will see your reputation, effort and business go down the drain”, in short it is equivalent to telling them do not hire me if you identify me as a secret spiller.

By being a secret spiller, it has not long term benefits at all and it will follow that person till they rest in peace and in some instances, it brings and spills over to the next generation making live more difficult for their kids and family even after their dismissal. Refer to Adolf Hitler and Benard Madoff; read related articles and reports how they people do not want to be associated with such people. That is what I think and after reading lots of similar business related books which support certain parts of what I have written above.

Ladies always wanted to be treated equally, but do they really mean what they say? I’m not against women; in fact I’m supportive of ladies as a matter of fact, more towards women than to ladies for their supportive role and they mean what they say unlike ladies who are still not yet mentally mature and able to take up responsibilities for their own actions.

There are many ways to earn money and keeping secrets is definitely one of the best ways to increase your own network, by being able to keep our own mouth zipped up.

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Relationship is an association of two or more people which is based on different purpose and bonding. It may be based on for business interactions, social commitments, interpersonal or intimate relationship.

Different purpose of relationship requires different methods of handling, and understanding how it works is the key to solving the root of the problems should it surface.

The root and basics of relationship management is to look at the difference between how a man and a woman handle relationship.

There is a common saying “Men can forget but they cannot forgive. Women can forgive but they cannot forget.”

During a courtship, there is both positive and negative behavior which we can learn from relationship. Relationship management is just like a business and it requires time, effort, commitment and collaboration from both parties to work.

In the process of the courtship, it is sweet, once the courtship is over and grow into a relationship before it evolve into a either a break-up or marriage followed by everlasting love if not separation followed by divorce.

The spectrum of transition of relationship is all about business transaction these days due to the change in culture and influences. Romance; love; commitment; responsibility; accountability ; management; operations; protection; expansion.  It is all about the cycle before it duplicates itself or it dies off.

Romance is sweet like an appetizer, a small dish to stimulate a desire for more.  It can be of in all flavors depending on the person’s character and personality. It is the selection of which appetizer is suitable for you like choosing a partner.

Once you take your pick, you start to taste it, the taste lingers in your mouth, either your taste buds accept it if not reject it. If you accept it, it starts to go inside, making you hungry wanting more increasing your appetite. It is the courtship whereby you want to consume it, but it just does not want you to know what the next dish is. With anticipation, the desire grows, like in a courtship, from hands to shoulders to waist, hips, kissing and other intimate actions translating romance into love.

Love is when you start to have the taste of the dish, and you ask for more, wanting the next dish to be served fast. Short light kiss becomes French-kissing and it proceeds further with hands into the picture. Like you start off with different breads, applying either butter or jam just simply hands and or with just a butter knife. As you progress, you start using tools to consume more and the tools get more, which is when intimacy increases and clothes start dropping piece by piece.

Commitment is when the main course get served, finally you see the dish in front of you, salivating, starts drooling and you can’t wait to consume the main dish. It is whereby clothes are completely removed; all you see in front of you is the naked body. Alluring, sexy with a sense of curiosity of how it will be like.

With a slice of cut on the meat, you put it into your mouth, its equivalent to making a commitment, a promise to your partner that you will stay by his/her side. Soon as you consume the main dish, you start to fell the slight fullness in your stomach. As foreplay moved into intercourse, the promise is made and commitment sets in.

Having finished the main course, the rest of the course can be predicted, with the delicious dish already served, whatever dish coming up next is just lighter in flavor then the main course which was just finished. Like after the intercourse, ejaculation sets in, satisfaction in both parties. The customer decides to stay till the end of the course, while the cook is happy that the customer enjoyed the main course.

With that, responsibility takes places. You will start discussing how nice the dish was previously, and perhaps next time your choice of dishes if you were to come back again. Similarly like how ladies like to hug their partners after it, lying on their partner’s chest or in the arms, looking into the eyes, smiling happily, chatting about the feelings during the intimate physical contact.

Accountability sets in soon after, like the dessert that’s coming up next, it can be of either hot or cold dessert to tantalize your taste buds usually ending with sweet desserts so the customer will come back for more. Like a happy couple resting in the comfort of each other, either one waking up slightly earlier to prepare breakfast for the other partner, leaving sweet memories and closing the chapter leaving wonderful and pleasant memories, allowing the couple to make plans for marriage.

Management is the bills of the whole set breakfast/lunch/dinner. Settling the bills, checking if the bill is right for any overcharging like a couple in bliss, planning for the next session with budgeting involved now.

Budgeting includes the promise and if the partner is responsible for his/her actions before a second and three set meal can be consumed together. Discussed wisely, the budget only gets sweet and larger with more commitments and responsibilities like choice of restaurant, if want to upgrade to a higher class restaurant paying for the service and ambiance similarly to discussion of settling down for a family.

Operations is how the restaurant runs the after sales service, the methods which they will offer to give you reasons to patronize the restaurant or their service again. It is when the partner shows his/her attention, care and concern for each other to make it work and have the relationship running smoothly without any food scraps getting stuck in between the teeth.

Protection is whereby restaurants come up with new dishes, promotions to attract and retain their valued customers. This is when business rivals surface allowing the customers to chance to taste other recipes and dishes. This will be when partners come up with new tricks such as new image, choice of clothes, some teasing, and new positions and change of environment to entice their own partners to stay faithful and loyal to each other.

Expansion is when the business is doing well; restaurant owner decides to open another outlet via franchise model duplicating their success. It is whereby both partners planting and wants seeds to be planted in the farmlands. For males, it’s to get the female pregnant, for females, it is to get married and the cycle continues, this time on the baby inside the womb.

Transactions are happening everyday, every second, how you run the business and how much you profit depends on you and nobody else. Learn management skills, it is the skill that is applicable to anything and everything.

Have a profitable business and a happy marriage. =)

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Repercussion is an effect or result of an action. It is the rebound or recoil of something after impact.

Whatever we do, there are repercussions be it positive or negative. Doing anything without first thinking will invite negative results.

Poor people often do not think of their actions they want to do first than blunt it out without thinking. Than when the results are unsatisfactory, they will than go back to the same person and make a din, noise creating a messy and nasty situation over a small problem. Guys and gals often do this, like hens flipping their wings than going around the other hens.

With huge authority comes huge responsibility which requires board shoulders to take accountability of their actions and decisions. Repercussions should be considered before anything is done.

In religion, it is about sin and blessing, for others its cause and effect while others is about karma.

No matter what you do, there is always the result which will be out and made know to people even if you do not like it.

Learn to face the music regardless of it being noise or music.

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Blame is a physiological behavior problem that everyone was taught and influenced as we all grow up. It is a negative behavior that supports and strongly encourages people to be poor and create more problems and tensions and it is everywhere and taught to exist in our subconscious.

It is the act of making negative remarks of an individual or a group when their action(s) are socially and morally wrong. Being not taking their own share of responsibility, only pushing the blame to others, they are not accountable to themselves, the group, the company and the profits, thus when you see such people in life, they are usually wanderers who have no fix group of loyal friends to themselves and are not welcomed to any events. Such people will never be successful or wealthy.

Blaming is used in our daily conversation, newspaper reports, news, shows, radio, internet and even when gaming, it happens when a person cause a team to lose in the competition. It is only used by people who are struggling to meet ends needs particular people who are working, getting a small pay cheque to meet ends’ needs. With a just over broke mentality, the poor will only think of themselves as perfect and wants everybody to change and accept that it is their fault for a failure in job or work project not taking responsibility for their own actions.

Higher level middle income to high class income earners, entrepreneurs will practice different level of accountability and responsibility which attribute to higher pay cheque and bonus because they do the fair or business well and have a code of honor and other ethical self practice which isn’t taught in school.

Entrepreneurs blame no one except for themselves for the results they are getting. The more accountability and responsible you are, the higher rate of success you will attain. It’s about taking charge of your own actions and results, and not implicating other innocent people into the picture or situation. It’s like you’re sinking in the vessel and you want somebody to sink together with you, which isn’t good to begin with. Instead of dragging down somebody, if you know you’re sinking if not dying, why not give up your own float which you’re wearing to somebody else who has a higher chance of survival.

You don’t need to drag others to hell to be successful even if it’s a failure in the project work. If it fails, and you take responsibility for the failure, at least you look and leave a good impression in front of your colleagues, employer and partners thus more projects will be entrusted to you in future.

People who pass the blame to others are myopic people who need to wear spectacles. They can’t see the damage they incur when thy do any action, thus they deserve to fail and don’t need to be bothered nor pity them for their situation. They reap what they sow and they deserve it. Give mice a cheese and they will ask you for a glass of milk. So don’t even pity those people until they are sincerely and feel remorseful upon their own reflection and shown sustainable change in behavior and actions over a long period of time before you give them the second chance.

You might want to consider praising others instead of blaming others in future if you want to have a better and brighter future.

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Trust is the emotional creditability which everyone has used on everything and anything in our daily lives, from buying a product from a reputable food store to buying clothes from well known brands offering products suitable to respective individuals.

Trust is also used in relationships, family bonding, education etc. Trust is formed when an individual has shown and proof that him/herself can be replied on with responsibilities. It is the integrity and confidence which someone might have on the other person.

It is not easy to build trust but it is simple to build trust. The way which it works is simple, if you abuse the trust, never ever again will others trust you regardless of what you do. That is how successful businessmen emphasis in entrusting their business partners with projects and businesses.

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