The people your spend the most time with will have a direct influence on your ability to reach your full potential…

Leadership expert Jim Rohn says that you are the average of the five people you spend most of your time with.

Basically what he is saying is that if you look at your life where it is at right now, your finance, the type of job you have, the type of attitudes you have, the way that life is going, you will probably find; the five people you spend the most time in your day actually have similar attitudes, similar values, similar monitory situations, similar job, etc, etc.

As human beings we have a tendency to want to be the same as the people around us and we will subconsciously move ourselves to the level of the people that we spend the most time with.

Well this brings up an interesting thing. If you are looking at your life and you are dissatisfied with where you are at. And you have got dreams to be something more, or achieving more, or go somewhere in your life, a really helpful exercise is to write down those dreams, write down your values, write down your money goals, write down your career aspiration, and then look at the five friends you spend the most time with and do the same thing for them…

Do they same share values as where you want to head, or  are their value slightly different. Do they have same attitudes towards work or the career, maybe their drive, their aspirations, their ambitions… what do they look like compared to your attitude, your ambitions and your aspirations.

What you will find is there will be some who share same values and aspirations and some who don’t. And if you want to actually move forward, what you are going to have to do is; you are going to have readjust the time you spend with the people who perhaps don’t share the attitude and aspirations that you do. I am not saying to cut people out of your life, but sometimes you are going to have re-evaluate the amount of time and the amount of input that certain people have on your future success and aspiration.

You might find that there is some you need to spend more time with and then there are others you need to spend less time with. Because whether you intend it or not, sooner or later, you will become the average of those people you spend the most time with.

So who is important in your life at the moment, who do you spend the most time with? Are they helping you to get where you want to go or they holding you back because they don’t share the same values, ambitions and aspirations that you do.

It is a really helpful exercise that might shock you and it might be little bit scary, but I encourage you to do it. You will find that it has a tremendous impact on where you are heading in your life.

You can lead no matter where you find yourself in life and I just want to encourage you to be brave and take a step towards your future.

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