Fine-Tuning Your Circle of Influence for Success
The people around you influence you more than you would imagine. In fact, you are the average of the five people closest to you. This can be friends, family, coworkers, mentors, etc. Your circle of influence helps shape who you are and your behaviors. If you surround yourself with five people who have no money and no direction in life, you will eventually be the sixth. Yet, if you surround yourself with highly motivated individuals who strive to better themselves and their lives, you will eventually be the sixth.
You should constantly be fine-tuning your circle of influence. Some people are fine remaining the same, but if you want to grow, you will need to evolve and get with a new group of individuals who align with your goals. It might be hard, but you will lose some friends along the way when you are fine-tuning your circle of influence. I’ve lost many friends. It’s not because they were bad people or that I was a jerk – it was because I was ready to change and improve and they were comfortable where they were in life.
Who’s in Your Circle of Influence?
Try to find a circle of influence that “keeps it real.” You don’t want to surround yourself with individuals who always tell you how great you are or how important you are. You want people who will tell it to your face that you messed up or that they don’t agree with you. People always say to surround yourself with positive people. That’s the last thing I want to do. I don’t want a bunch of people around me to feed me BS and lie to my face because they are “positive people.” I want someone to tell me like it is. They can be nice people, but I don’t want things sugar-coated. I want to surround myself with influential people who will challenge and push me every single day. I don’t need a pat on the butt and an “atta boy” from my circle of influence. I need someone who can push me to my limits and grow. And you should too!
Strive to better not only your life, but the lives of those around you too. Help your circle of influence as much as you want them to help you. Add value to your circle of influence. Trade skill sets, assist with personal and professional growth and be the change that you want to see in all of your lives. Stop settling for average. Average gets you nowhere in life. Average gets you overlooked for promotions and raises. Average gets you a lower salary. Average doesn’t help you create success. Average doesn’t allow you to stand out in a crowd. If you’re fine being average then good for you. But my site, my blog, my podcast, my content… isn’t for you. Make the change by changing your circle of influence if they don’t align with your goals.
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