Who Do You Spend Most of Your Time With?

Are you putting your self in a winning environment?


The quickest way to change your life is to change your friends and associations.  There is a lot of people that I talk to that are really trying to better their life and become more successful, but they continue to hang out with the same people that they always have, so that get the same results they they always have.  I have heard that your success level is the average of the 6 people you send the most time with.

A funny thing about human nature is that most people, at least on a subconscious level, will try to hold the friends and family to their own level success and understanding rather than assisting them to rise up to another level.  If a person hears about or has an idea that might propel him above the people he most associates with, and then goes to these people to advise him on what to do with this idea, those people will probably shoot down that idea as risky or unproven.

A funny thing that  I learned is that you can put one crab in a pan or container with short sides on it and that crab will easily crawl away.  But when you put two or more crabs it that same containment, none of them will ever escape because if one tries to leave the others will always hold them back.  Humans are not that much different.

Look around you.  If you are driven to be more successful and you are that most successful person in you group of friends and associates, you have a problem. I order to break free and continue your assent to your goals, you may first need to find new friends and associates that are at a higher level that you are, so that they can bring you up to their level.  Change can be uncomfortable, but if you continue to live in the same environment with the same people and associations, you will probably keeping getting the same results, regardless of your desires.  Find and associate with people that are moving up in the same direction as you desire and life will be much easier.