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This is the first post in the A-Z challenge series. Someone once said that relationships form the fabric of life. While I believe this to be true, I also know that in order to truly find success in life, we need the help of other people. Getting help from other people involves us having to get along with them. And we can’t get along with people if we don't learn to form strong, long lasting relationships with them.

So this A-Z challenge is my attempt to take 26 qualities that I believe we need to have if we are to develop long lasting relationships with other people.

Each post will have my opinion on the quality, a take away principle and a few tips on how we can incorporate it into our lives.

I really thought a lot about what A should stand for and there were many other qualities that came to mind: attitude, amicability etc. but I decided to go for accountability. I believe one of the reasons why relationships fail today is because they are not being accountable to each other.

People who are not accountable are often seen doing their own thing based on their opinions and emotions knowing that they will not be questioned for it. Inevitably over a period of time they make mistakes. These mistakes will not only hurt and affect them but also those they are close with, primarily, since they are not aware.

Accountability is the willingness to explain our thoughts and actions to someone. It communicates that we trust and value their input in our lives. It also makes us responsible to ourselves. Being accountable to those we are close to strengthens and deepens our relationship with them.

Accountability helps us to be responsible towards ourselves and the people we are close to. 

Tips on being accountable: 

5. Put the advice to work and make it visible.

I have been thinking of whether or not to take part in this for quite a while now. I heard about the A to Z blogging challenge  for the first time from fellow bloggers Richa and Shilpa and later really got introduced into the topic from Corinne.

The challenge is to post every day of April except the 4 Sundays. And since there are 26 days left besides them, we've got to post something everyday, off each letter from the alphabet. We're to revolve our posts around one letter of the alphabet each day! Day 1 with the letter A, Day 2 with the letter B and so on...If you wish to take part, you will have to sign up here.

I don't blog that often and so I knew that this was going to be quite a challenge...blogging everyday! But help came around the corner.
They suggested that one way to approach this challenge would be to theme the entire thing to make it easier. At least you will have some clue as to what to write about for the next day! And today's the day they decided to let everyone reveal their theme.


I have been thinking of what to theme the entire 26 posts on. And well, I could think of only one thing. So my theme for this challenge is going to be on: RELATIONSHIPS.

Growing up, connecting and maintaining good relationships with people was always the most difficult thing to do for me. Being an introvert, it only added to the difficulty.

I took up a journey which is still ongoing, on finding ways to build strong relationships. So I want to write on what I have learnt and have been learning on having successful relationships with people. The underlying fact that I have understood about this subject is that in-spite of how we like it or not, people interaction is inevitable. Especially today, when people are well connected, strong relationships always help to move forward. So to sum it up, I will be writing the A-Z of what I know on relationships. Again this is not THE A-Z of relationships but it's what I have learnt and experienced!

So stay tuned the whole of next month! This is going to be quite a ride!