Ever heard the saying, “You are who you are with?” You know, you are likely to be like the 5 people you hang around the most. Why? Because they grow on you, and you start to inherit some of their habits and even ways of thinking. Humans are sponges after all. I’ll tell you, I use to have a real close friend who was from the Bronx, NY who had a really pronounced “New York” Accent (I loved it!) and it wasn’t long till I just couldn’t help it, I started to acquire a new york accent also.
This phenomena also happened to Madonna, after she married Guy Ritchie and moved to England, she came back with an noticeable English Accent. Well this can be a good thing or a bad thing. As you know, if you hang out with the wrong people, bad things can rub off on you as well.
But if you want to cut the learning curve and experience success faster, you can align yourself with successful people so that their thoughts and habits rub off on you. But what happens if you don’t have anyone who is really successful to hang out with?
I was surrounded by Working Class parents and the public school system all my life that never taught me about the possibilities of earning 5 figures or more a month. That wasn’t even part of my consciousness. All I ever knew was I was supposed to prepare myself to get a “JOB”. And in my neighborhood, there was not one “successful” person within even a mile from me, even as an adult.
So what are you supposed to do if all you have is Grandma and Uncle Lou or even an unsupportive spouse around who know nothing more than what they were badly taught which was to “work hard” and long hours and exchange hours for dollars?
You do what I did and get your hands on personal development resources.
I started listening to Bob Proctor, Jack Canfield, Brian Tracy, Tony Robbins, T. Harv Eker, Willy Jolley, Les Brown, just to name a few and downloaded them into my IPOD. I would listen to these masters every chance I got and I would let their voices and their philosophies engulf my brain. That would motivate me to take action and to get things done.
Luckily, because of our technology, there are even online “schools” that focus on personal development that you can have access to, 24/7 365 days a year. I take a course or two a week, and still listen to my virtual Mentors on my Ipod and it has made a world of difference to my thought process.
Albert Einstein once said, that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing every single day expecting a different result. Boy is that absolutely true.
If you are stuck in the rut of 9-5, and rush hour traffic, coming home scarfing dinner, doing homework with the kids and watching a little of the tube before you call it a night, and then wake up and repeat this process 5 times a week, no wonder this world is in the state it is in.
You can break that cycle now by adding some personal development into your daily life. Listen to a different mentor every day. In different areas of success. Whether it be in Leadership, salesmanship, finances or health, getting a personal development perspective from professionals, and let them breathe new ideas into your ears while you do other things around the house, or as you sit in front of the computer, is going to make a world of difference.
You can start with a FREE 14 day trial right here and see what I’m talking about: http://www.successstartsinthemind.info
============================================================================
Barbie Figueroa, is a Marketing Trainer, Coach and Internet Network Marketer,
305-245-2861