To achieve significant and authentic success, you need to forge relationships with sincere persons – in your business or personal life. Avoid dealings with persons who will constantly be on the lookout for ways to exploit you for their own benefit. Instead,actively seek out people with whom you can enjoy mutually rewarding relationships. This article explains how to achieve the foregoing using a combination of street wisdom and your intuition – your sixth sense.

But How Can You Accurately Know Who Is Sincere, And Who Is Not?

Good question. The key word there being “accurately”.

I offer ideas you can use, based on my personal experiences and achievements. But I’ll also be the first to admit there is no fool proof strategy you can adopt.

However, I believe that with practice, you can hone your ability to sniff out insincerity. And it won’t matter how well the person “afflicted with it” tries to mask it. You’ll know it’s there from the way you “feel”. You’ll just know it.

We have a saying in my language (Yoruba) that goes thus:

“Eefi ni iwa.”

Translated contextually, in English, it means:

 “Character is like smoke.”

And you know what smoke is like. Even before it inevitably manifests visually, it often makes its presence known through its “smell” (depending on the kind of smoke).

Some people have naturally sensitive noses. Others do not. However people can be trained to detect flavours in beer at low levels. In the same way, a person can consciously develop his other senses to better perceive changes in his environment.

Insincerity – like smoke – is also intangible. To detect its presence one must be able to perceive it. How well you do this could determine whether or not you succeed. Otherwise you could leave yourself open to negative influences that may deny you progress.

Not Every “Nice” Person Is Really Nice…

For instance in business some people may choose to get close to you, so they can ask you to give your services free – since they are “friends”. And they can be very persuasive – even using emotional blackmail to get you to do what they want.

Take note that it never occurs to them that you need to turn a profit to grow your business, and support yourself or your dependants. Even when it does occur to them, they never let it matter enough give up their antics!

Understand that not everyone that smiles at you, and calls you a “friend” really has good intentions. Once you discover any person is like that, I recommend you talk to him about it, and see if he changes.

If he does not, my advice to you is this:  FLEE (and I mean that literally!) as far away as possible from that person. He most probably belongs to the group that will use others and dump them. They suck the life out of those naïve enough to make themselves available in that manner. You don’t need that kind of person.

You Have A Powerful Sixth Sense that’s (Probably) Lying Dormant – Revive It!

I refer to your intuition. Your sixth sense. The ability to perceive the unseen or unspoken or hidden. We were all born with it. And it’s still there. Even now.

Humans have always been deeply spiritual beings from the earliest days. However, the love of ease, fed by our development of modern day conveniences has made us “forget”.

Those innate abilities are still in us – lying dormant. The few and far between amongst us who choose to revive them often go on to record achievements that the rest marvel at.

I urge you to become one of those few. Begin to pay attention to your inner voice. And learn to follow its lead in interacting with others. It will guide you – more frequently – to safe and profitable business relationships.

It will also help you detect negative changes in relationships e.g. a client who used to be good, but who for whatever reason has decided to try pulling a fast one on you. You will find that your sixth sense will set off a hidden alarm in your head to alert you.

Your success in business will greatly depend on your ability to hone that God-given intuitive ability. It can be a powerful tool for identifying insincere people in your life.

To Excel, Use Street Wisdom Guided by a Finely Honed Sixth Sense

It’s not a pleasant truth, but it is the reality. Face it. The world in not fair – never will be.

If you’re good to others, that’s no guarantee others will be good to you! (I still struggle with this concept because I find it hard to believe some people won’t be good.)

So don’t fret over the fact that it happens. Simply learn how to deal with it when it does. That’s what this article offers you: How to use street wisdom in conjunction with well developed intuition, to make the most of your relationships.

Developing the former (i.e. street wisdom) is very simple – really.

All you need to do is become a very dedicated student of human nature. Carefully study (and tactfully test) those you interact with.

What they do, and not what they say, will often reveal who they really are. Use what you learn as a guide in your future interactions with them, and others. That’s all it takes.

Developing your intuition has already been covered in the earlier part of this write-up.

So it’s up to you now.

Your creator expects you to manifest the full potential you have in you. Go out there and unleash yourself on the world, to make it a better place. You already have all that you need to deal effectively with anything the world throws at you along the way.

Good luck!