If you are serious about having success, be it in your

relationship, family life or career, there are some things that it is best you

keep to yourself, even from the bestie. Yes, you have friends that you may

share secrets with but there is no guarantee that your friend today will not be

your ‘frenemy’ two years from now.

Oftentimes people with loose lips fail to see the correlation

between having verbal diarrhoea and unfulfilled dreams or deferred plans but

think about it: if you keep talking about things that are sensitive in nature,

do you really expect the person listening to just sit on the information forever

and do nothing?

Remember three can keep a secret if two are dead.  See the list below and act accordingly. You

can thank me later.

1. Love life:

If you want to mash up your relationship, just blab to your girlfriend about how

good your man can lay pipe. Best believe she is going to want to ‘confirm’ your

findings!

2. Income:

Nobody needs to know that, not even your spouse because in an acrimonious

situation it can come back to bite you when they ask for money since they know

you got it like that. Plus you also do not need friends and family coming to

‘borrow’ money every couple of weeks.

3. Plans to

quit your job: The worst person to share that bit of information with is a

co-worker, especially the sneaky, overly ambitious one.

4. That there is a position for advancement opening up

in your organisation: Again, watch that sneaky co-worker. She may beat you to the

punch because you just could not do it first and then talk about it after

5. Extramarital

affairs: Men especially like to brag but this kind of ‘sharing’ can come

back to bite you in a court of law when your soon to be ex goes for your

jugular and have ‘receipts’ thanks to information received from your

bestie.

6. Family issues: Family skeletons are best left in the closet. If you really need to discuss them or if someone is hurting and really needs closure, seek the services of a trained therapist.