Relationship is a time consuming institution that drains a large chunk of our mental and emotional space whenever it doesn’t go right. As soon as you notice a red flag in your relationship, I believe it is the perfect time to take to your heels, except you can miraculously change the hand of time, if at all you can.

With that said, there are certain steps to take to yank yourself out of a toxic relationship, if you really want to.

1. Seek counsel: People in toxic relationship are advised to take counsel from friends, family, professionals and permit me to say, love doctors if need warrants. It could get difficult to think straight trying to get out of the relationship. You, need rehabilitation because the process takes time and you need supportive friends and family around you all through the process.
2. Express your feelings: When trying to exit a toxic relationship, you need to express your feelings in every possible way. Do not keep too mute. Endeavor to express the way you feel to the person you’re in a toxic relationship with, hoping they would take it lightly and reasonably with you.
3. Make a firm decision: After you must have expressed your feelings, the next thing is to make a concrete decision whether or not the relationship can be salvaged. If you see the need to fight for the relationship, then go ahead, if otherwise, kindly talk a beach walk-away from the relationship.
4. Surround yourself with positivity: Whatever your decisions are, you need to back them up with a strong  positive vibe. Ensure you stay positive at all instance. Do not rule out on love totally.
5. Stick with your decision:  As said earlier, do not back out on your decision. Hold firm to it for as long as you deem fit. It is normal that you miss the person you left; we are humans not robots and we have a mind. However, you need to remember that the decision you took was for good, so stick to it and resist the urge to go back to your toxic relationship.

It is better leave a relationship when you notice the red flags or see the handwritings on the wall, than to continue bearing the emotional stress and assaults.

Brainstorming an effective and efficient marketing strategy is not a day’s job; it takes a lot of commitment, time and patience to achieve this goal. You would need to spend enormous time understanding your target audience/customers and their customary habits to fully understand how best to reach them.

However, there are certain simple steps to help you reach these clients.

1.  Create Advertisements: This is one of the best ways to get the attention of your potential clients. Google and Facebook offer a cheap ads platform which can boost your patronage.
2. Smart Social Media: It is one thing to be always on social media, it is another to have a social media presence. Use your social media platforms, not only to promote your brand or product and services, but to answer possible questions within the jurisdiction of problem solution.
3. Respond to emails, calls and notifications: So many people in business do not have time to respond or reply their unread notifications for reasons best known to them. If you want to boost your sale and know where your potential clients are, you need to be always ready to provide answer to everyone’s questions.
4. Connect with the right influencers: Identify group of people who are successful in your line of business and try to follow their activities. There are a lot of things you stand to learn from them.
5. Post relevant contents: You cannot claim to be a fashion designer and a large chunk of your post are on mobile phones or food. It does not connect. Ensure you always update your audience on intriguing information in your business.
6. Research your competitors and find out who their customers are: This might look like an investigation, regardless, it is tailored to knowing who your potential clients might be and meeting their needs.

Getting along with people could get a little complicated. However it is imperative to have a good and working relationship with people, most especially the ones you’re in a group with. They say “If you want to run fast, run alone, but if you want to run far, go with people” Having said this, you need to have a good relationship with people regardless of the situation you might find yourself.

To get your team working together, you need to do:

1. Listen with the intent to understand: It is said that majority of people listen to reply, rather to understand. To make a team work together, you need learn to listen to understand the plight of the narrator.
2. Practise the golden rule: The golden rule has become obsolete in our generation. People don’t out themselves in other’s shoes, instead they act like they don’t make mistake. To get a team working, regardless of the number, you need to put yourself in the position of each individual, however strenuous it might get.
3. Be polite: The world is losing it when it comes to being polite. Myriad go with “this is my nature, I don’t know how to pretend when things aren’t right” Trying to make a team work, whether you’re the captain or not, you must be polite. You could be polite with diplomacy, but it should not take the place of being polite. Just be tenderhearted, you’ll be surprise to know the number of miraculous stunts you’d pull.
4. Cease the occasion to say soothing words: Your team would fall into a very bad or rough day where thing would go not-too-good for you. This is the perfect opportunity to conjure encouraging words to keep the team spirit high and working.
5. Show interest in others: A good way to make things work in your group is to show genuine and honest interest in others without any ulterior motive. When people notice you show interest in them it builds up their capacity and propensity to succeed.
6. Be positive: This is related to one of the above. Being positive means saying and acting positive in all circumstances, without a reservation. Being positive is a mind game and you need to brace up your mind to stand up to the occasion when it arises.

Piggyvest is a platform that allows you save money automatically with ease. It helps you carve out certain amount of money from your bank account for the rainy day. It has no start fee, meaning, you can open it  with a zero account. The only thing you might need would be your BVN to link your savings with your bank details for withdrawal. It allows the following deposits: daily deposit is between N50-N25,000. Weekly is between N1,000 to N100,000. Monthly deposit range is between N3,000 to N500,000. The piggyvest wallet can either be accessed on the web and app. You could decide to use the website platform or download the app from Google playstore.

Features of the Piggyvest wallet

1. Savings: Piggyvest has three forms of savings: a) Target saving. This an option that allows you save towards a purpose. Even when you have an emergency, you won’t have access to the money untill the days you stipulated for the completion of the target. For example, you can save towards your education, new gadgets, house rents, for months. You get to choose the amount you want to save and when you want to save. b) Safelock saving. Safelock is an option that helps you lock money away for months, usually 2-24 months, and also gives you interest on your savings. c) Flex Dollars saving. The flex Dollars allows you save money in US Dollars. This is a good option for those who are international trade savvy. I would suggest you buy dollars when exchange rate is low and withdraw it when you notice a rise in US-NGN exchange.
2. Interest rate: Piggyvest wallet gives you interest for saving money. Banks, these days, do not give you interest for saving your money, instead they debit you for some maintenance. The interest rate for using the target saving is 10%, flex Dollars 6% and Safelock 13% all per annum.
3. Investment: This platform helps you invest in different aspect of life. Ranging from agriculture, transportation and others
4. Withdrawal: Withdrawal of your money is usually free during a period of time (March 31st, June 30th, September 30th and December 31st). Any withdrawal outside these dates would cost you about 5% of the amount you wish to withdraw.