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Why Successful People Leave Their Loser Friends Behind

Why Successful People Leave Their Loser Friends Behind
Why Successful People Leave Their Loser Friends Behind

We all want to be amazing. We all want to be successful, happy, and regarded as important figures in our fields. I am sure that youโ€™ve heard all ofย the keys to successย before: planning, hard work, perseverance, etc.

But today we are going to look at the one factor that will likely make or break your success:ย the people you surround yourself with.

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โ€œYou are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.โ€ โ€“ย Jim Rohn

Want to be Amazing?ย Surround Yourself with Amazing People

The Make or Break List

A good friend of mine once told me of a man he knows who brought himself up from rags to riches. ย Living paycheck to paycheck was a luxury for this man, and he decided that he was tired of being trapped by his own life.

The poor man looked around at his friends, and noticed that one of them โ€“ who wasnโ€™t particularly smart or more talented โ€“ had become quite wealthy. He asked this man how he accrued this wealth, how he was able to become a millionaire. The wealthy manโ€™s response was simple: โ€œkeep the right company.โ€

The man took thatย adviceย to heart. He quickly noticed that all of theย otherย friends he had hated hard work and had no desire to improve themselves. So he sought out new friends, he went around to conventions and seminars to connect with people who had made something of themselves. After he had completely replaced the people in his network, he decided to make a list. This list was simple. It had a column for people who would improve his life, and a column for people who would drag him down.

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If someone could improve his life, he spent as much time around them as possible. If someone could drag him down, he never spent more thanย five minutesย around them.After following his โ€œmake or breakโ€ list, the man was able to become a millionaire withinย three years.

No One does it Alone

The five-minute rule may be a little extreme, but there is an important lesson to learn from it:ย if you surround yourself with positive people who build you up, the sky is the limit.

There is an ideal in our society of the โ€œself-madeโ€ man โ€“ a man who is able to findย successย through his own efforts. Now, donโ€™t get me wrong, success does require an immense amount of determination and personal grit. However,ย success also depends on the ability to connect with people who have already made it.

There was once a man namedย Ernest Hemingway. If you arenโ€™t familiar with Ernest Hemingway, he was one of the greatest American writers of all time. Even a great writer like Hemingway didnโ€™t succeed on his own. He worked at a newspaper where his boss โ€“ a writer named Sherwood Anderson โ€“ helped him get his first novel published. Hemingway then connected with other no-name writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce.

This community of great writers helped to influence his style, success, and drove him to write every single day and become one of the greatest authors of his generation.

Hemingway is a testament to the fact that innate talent alone does not equal success. Itโ€™s hard to keep up a strict schedule to perfect your craft or improve yourself if you donโ€™t have people around you with similar interests. Your network โ€“ your five key people โ€“ will determine the way you think, the way you act, and the way you approach your life goals.

Three Essential People

A mentor once told me that no matter how many close people you have in your network, if you want to be truly great, you must haveย three essential people in your life at all times:

A person who is older and more successful than you to learn from
A person who is equal to you to exchange ideas with
A person below you to coach and keep you energized

A great figure of history who embodied this principle was Aristotle. Aristotle was one of the greatest minds to ever grace this beautiful Earth, but this was only so because he was constantly challenging himself and working to refine his talents. He exchanged ideas with other Greek philosophers in the โ€œAcademy,โ€ learned from his mentor Plato, and taught a young boy named Alexanderโ€ฆwho would later become โ€œAlexander the Great.โ€

Every great person was, is, or will be successful because of the company he or she keeps. They will make an impact because of a successful network of driven peers who provide both inspiration and healthy competition.

If you want to be remarkable, you must constantlyย challenge yourselfย and surround yourself with remarkable people. So think about what your goals are, and take a look around you. Do you need to write a โ€œmake or breakโ€ list? Do you have the kind of people who are going to lead you toย live the lifeย of your dreams?

โ€œDonโ€™t join an easy crowd. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform and achieve are high.โ€ย โ€“ย Jim Rohn

Source:addicted2success.com

 

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