damolaolomu

no association is neutral and no association leaves you unchanged, whether positively or negatively. every association influences you greatly in more ways than one and being ignorant of this reality makes that influence even more potent. every connection either adds to you or takes from you and a lot of times it’s both ways in different realms because we’re multidimensional. some influences are infinitesimal and others are enormous, lasting even for a life time. 

look at it this way, we’re all walking slates, everyone you meet either writes on your slate or erases something from it. this largely explains why people can have beliefs and ideologies ingrained in them and can’t explain how they came up with them or why and how they believe and align with these ideologies and consequently can’t define them.

association is a player in the formation of both warped and impeccable mindsets. it’s responsible for a lot of the pain of regret people walk around with today. it can be the reason why individuals navigate paths that leads to enviable destinies or one that leads to sorrow and destruction.  it’s why people can pick up interests that lead to the birthing of world impacting solutions or abhorrent vices that contribute to societal decadence. 

your company shapes you in no small measure and this gives you two choices, you either realize that you have a big role to play in curating that company or you ignore that responsibility, fold your arms and let the world choose for you, the law of cause and effect is set in stone to reward you handsomely for the choice you make. 

like belief systems, association contributes largely to the development of a perspective. it has the power to corrupt your vision or curate a corrupted one for you and on the flip side it wields the power to expand, steward and accelerate the birthing of your vision.  

like it or not, it’s built into the fabrics of creation, we were made to co-exist and be interdependent, but the creator also gave us a will, and with that will comes the power to choose. and you should, choose. decide who should be in your space, choose who you’re forming alliances with and expressly define why.  define your values, principles and ideologies correctly before you join a company because you’d either influence or be influenced and in the almost definite advent of both, you can ensure that your non-negotiables remain non-negotiables.

mistakes can be avoided, development, growth, ideation can be accelerated, refined, expanded by the power of the right association. time can be redeemed by the right association. numbers matter in defining legacy, every war won or lost, every innovation and revolution in history rode on the strength of numbers- people aligned with a shared resolve and resolution to get something done. networks and net-worths, growth and scaling all ride on the power of this law of association and relationships. 

association and relationships by extension is powerful, it’s a currency that can purchase things that even money can’t buy. so everyone you ignore or align with has the potential to advantage or disadvantage you, slow you down or give you uncanny speed. association has the power to open and shut doors, both good and bad ones, it can grant or revoke access to possibilities of ease, and it’s a determining factor for results, either good or bad. 

the unraveling of this mystery is a call to intentionality and responsibility, this knowledge is a guiding light to help navigate the roadmap to destiny fulfillment. associations either as friendships, marriages, work and business relationships, cell groups and structures, religious or secular organizations or the macrocosm of society as a whole should be strategically and purposefully defined.

He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

— Proverbs 13:20 KJV. 

 selah.