Be Careful Who You Spend The Most Time With

When you were younger did your parents ever ask you who your friends were?

At the time we might have thought they were just trying to tell you who you should hang around with. Truth is it didn’t matter to us who our friends were our friends and we enjoyed playing and having fun, little did we know the importance of what our parents were trying to actually tell us…

We tend to hang around people which have the same interests as we do.

Watching the same television shows or movies.

Eat same foods.

Dress in the same style clothes.

Have similar habits.

When my son was younger his friends would hang out at our house, we were the community hang out for the kids. They all got along and did the things you would expect kids to do living in the country.

Riding and fixing bikes. ( who could ride on one wheel the longest)

                                                                                     Listening to music.

 

 

Talking on the phone.

 

Exploring in the woods.

Gathering and splitting fire wood.

Always looking for that next adventure.

You never quite knew what they were going to do next!

As the years went by one of my sons friends stopped hanging around our house, I asked him where he was…

“He is in with the wrong crowd dad I don’t want to be around those kind of people”

The old story good kid hanging with the wrong crowd.

 

Today that same principle applies to us all, however we are much more aware of the company we keep, not to fall into the wrong crowd. We must be accountable for what groups of people we spend the most time with.

There are a few things to consider about the company you keep:

• Do the people you hang with lift you up or pull you down

That doesn’t mean you need to find people that are always patting you on the back, they should listen to you and what you want in life and not always give their opinion or tell you what you want is never going to work out the way you want.

• Do they have good habits

No two people are the same, however if your friends have bad habits you may be developing those same bad habits and not even realize it.

• Look at the core group of people you hang out with   

Does the core group of people you hang with reflect your current values? just by being around them you will become the average of them all each-one of them will become a part of you. Look at who they are as a group and if that matches your blueprint. You might want to change the group you hang with.

This week look at all the people you spend the most time with, do they match up to your core values? Are they on the same page as you?

Jim Rohn sums it up perfectly:

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with”

~Stay strong~

 

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