It's such a blessing to know I am helping people on the path to achieving their goals. Helping others with their financial goals and dreams is such an awesome feeling. As God continues to help me take baby steps towards my goals and dreams, I continue to learn more and more as I go just by helping others. What's holding you back from achieving your goals? Ever evaluated the people around you? Ask yourselves these questions:
"Who am I around?"
How are they influencing me? negatively and positively?
What do they have me thinking?
How have they got me talking?
How have they got me feeling?
Is that okay?
We are affected by everything around us, including what we read, what we watch, who we talk with and who we spend time with. It all plays a part in how we view our world, our relationships, our opportunities but mostly ourselves. Make a mental note of the people with whom you most often associate. You've got to evaluate everyone who is able to influence you in any way.
If you were to evaluate the major influences in your life that have shaped the kind of person you are, this has to be high on the list: the people and thoughts you choose to allow into your life. The influence of those around us is so powerful! Many times we don't even realize we're being strongly affected because influences generally develop over an extended period of time.
Peer pressure is an especially powerful force because it is so subtle. If you're around people who spend all they make, chances are excellent that you might spend all you make. If you are around people who don't read, chances are excellent that you might not read. People can keep nudging us off course a little at a time until finally, we find ourselves asking, "How did I get here?” I can testify to this for sure. I found myself very miserable at one point because I was around miserable or should I say dissatisfied people a lot. I know, some of you might say “I’m around miserable people in the workplace all the time, I can’t change that.” Well, look at it this way, we spend a certain amount of hours a week there, how about using the other hours by surrounding yourself with positive people. Initiate relationships with people who are further ahead in personal and professional development than you are. There are so many successful people around you who can help you in so many ways! And if they are successful, they are busy! So chances are, they are not going to initiate anything with you, but they will more than likely be willing to meet with you or invest in you if you initiate contact with them. Of course, some won't, but that's okay, just move on until you find someone who will. Meet with them, buy them lunch or coffee. Let your association with them help you. Learn from them. Watch them. Let their experience guide you. But remember, you will have to pursue them, not the other way around.
You've got to keep checking to find out whether your associations are tipping the scales toward the positive or toward the negative. Ignorance is never the best policy. Finding out is the best policy.
When you succeed, you will create and attract more success around you. Success breeds success, so when you succeed, even at just a level above where you are right now, you will see that the people you associate with will also start becoming more successful themselves (which will also increase the level of your own associations!). That is one of the exciting by-products of success.
Have people around you that you can rely on to speak the truth to you. We need people around us who will tell us the truth. Even if it may be negative, given with a heart of concern, truth will still build us up and move us forward. We don't just want people around us who will tell us only the good or what we want to hear. Growing in our personal and professional lives means looking at the whole picture, dealing with both strengths and weaknesses. We need a good balance of people around us who can help us see all sides of the issue.
We need to be full of care - careful - when we are looking at who or what we allow into our lives and thus to shape and mold our lives. Look for people and information that will build you up and give you the next step you need to move forward in your journey.
Remember, your associations should move you forward, not impede your progress.
Be Blessed all.
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