Beauty Is Skin DEEP - Dig Deeper!

3. Do your homework - Due diligence - The main reasons for failure in marriage and business centre around the following:

· Entering into the partnership without understanding the other partner. It is estimated that out of every 100 people who say they want to enter into business only 1 does so. The reason for this is that many do not have the nerve to own their own business preferring to stay as employees - with their monthly cheque and guaranteed annual leave. In marriage the same caution should prevail - we all have many associations before the right person comes along. But love is sometimes blind and do we really know the person we are marrying until we marry them and then it could be too late.

· Another concern following from the above is that persons enter into a business whereby they do not understand the product or service being supplied - failure is usually the result.

· In marriage a long term courtship will assist in ensuring that the marriage relationship will work.

ADVICE 3 - Make sure you know who you are marrying and what business you are entering - things are not always what they appear to be

by Bob Power