Top 10 Reasons for Failure - #9 Being Normal

Your current cronies are not going to pay your electric bill or your kids college.

New cronies might.

Yes, new ones just might do the trick. Did you know that the average income of the crowd you hang with will inevitably be your own? Ewww

Proven fact...not opinion.

So I'm thinking it might be time for a check up of your aging friends list. They have influence on you. A lot.  And being unaware of the impact isn't
the only issue.  You can be completely clear about this phenomena and still fall in to the stat.

Doesn't even matter if you are not clear why this is.  Asking why often distracts us from making a change.  Jim Rohn's comic explanation fits here. That's how it works here on earth.  Get your own planet and make your own rules, but until then you'll have to deal with it.

I didn't dump all my friends. I just limited my time with them.  I made sure that the influence I wanted in my life was larger than theirs.

Mentors, role models.  Reading, classes.  You need more positive input.  You ask...My friends are a negative influence? I don't know. I'm just saying you might want to evaluate.

If you want to improve a certain area of your life, look at your firneds and see what the average amongst them are in that area.

Are you wanting to lose weight and all your coworkers lunch at the local pizza joint every day (and obviously wont be the ideal weight if so)?

Do you want to raise your income?  Are your friends in the same game?  If they are, then the conversation will go there and there may be value.  But if they are bitching about their job and income every time you get together...that wont work.

Limit the time you go to lunch with coworkers to once every 2 weeks or so.  When I was working part time in the business that I wanted to be full time  in, I used to leave for lunch and drive straight down to the office.  I ate my bagged lunch in the car on the wya, to give myself enough time ot do this and get back in the hour I was alotted.  Nobody told me to do this.  I just felt good when I was with them.  So I looked for chances to spend time with them.

These were poeple I wanted to emulate.  I respected them, and wanted to know how I could have what they had:  a strong business model, and  a higher income than I had at the time.  

It was so inconvenient, but I didnt care.  I literally had about 20-25 minutes to spend there because of the 9 miles each way in decently heave traffic.

What I didnt know at the time, was that they didn't have any other part time people doing this.  It was odd.  Not in the weird sense, but the not average and ordinary sense.

I have worked for years to try and brainwash my 2 kids that they do not want to be normal.

Normal in our country is really not good.  Normal marriage...divorce and distress. Normal household finances...budgeting and doing without.  Normal health...overweight and issues.  Get the picture?

Why would I ever want my kids to be normal?  Normal is boring, mediocre, and wanting.

I want them (and you and I) to be extraordinary, curious and successful.

Time for a change?  Then look for change, and start with your circle of influence.  Change that circle and push yourself in the direction you want to go...up.

Did you have to make hard decisions to pursue the siccess you wanted?  What were they?  Share those with us in the ocmments and be the influence for someone in this community might need.