OR Building friendships worth growing for a lifetime. In this podcast I go over the three essential ingredients to good friendship so that you can train yourself to choose great ones. I also cover nine general rules for being a great friend to yourself and others \u2013 as well as ways to find friends that are perfect for you. So if you are looking to make new and better friendships that you can invest in for a lifetime, this is a podcast for you. This is for Catherine \u2013 (thanks girl!) She wrote, \u201cCan you talk about what it means to be a good friend \u2013 and ways to practice that.\u201d Catherine - I know your question was more general than the topic above. I chose to take this angle because I think it\u2019s a good way to force yourself to choose better relationships, despite your conditioned-in blinders. Just like with anything else \u2013 a job, a marriage, or anything really, we bring our old rusty eyeballs into a relationship \u2013 and often we can\u2019t tell how we are being blinded by those issues and experiences. Sometimes they can compromise our ability to choose the right people for the right reasons, or give and to receive the fruits of friendship. In other words, they get in the way of smart and self-loving decision-making. So I am going to present this to you in a way that hopefully will allow you to approach friendship from an intentional perspective so that you can build mutually beneficial and powerful friendships that bring value to your life and the others who are out there right now, in need of a friend like you. If you likee, check out the Teaspoon for more of my writing- as well as my books. And if you prefer to read, this will be posted as a blog later on this week. Smile peeps! xox Sarah May b. http://www.teaspoonofhappy.com\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices