Evolving beyond your friends

Most of us have friends who are about like us.  Same interests, same vocabulary, same habits, and same level of success.

We like people who are like us.  

The problem is they keep reinforcing a life that we already know the results of when we live it.  If we want more and better, we have to learn new things, talk in different ways, and take different actions.  We will have to give up (some or all) of the old activities in favor of something new that yields better results.

Many of our friends won’t like that.

They don’t like it when you evolve beyond their own comfort zone.  They don’t like it when you do what they are unwilling to do but know they should.  They don’t like it when you are doing better than them and making them look bad.  

There are exceptions.  A real friend who truly cares about you will want you to do better even if you leave them behind.

If you have friends who want to hold you down for their sake, you don’t have to tell them you are right and they are wrong, or say goodbye.  You don’t have to say anything at all.  Just stop hanging around them (so much).

You have a life to build.  Move forward.

And don’t worry, you’ll make plenty of new friends on the way up.

 

Believe and achieve.

You have to believe good things are possible for them to energize you.

If I told you that you could be one of the top people in your field with all the things that come with it, if you want that and believe it, you will pursue it.  You will do the things necessary to get there.  Your belief will push you through setbacks and obstacles.

If you do not believe me, and/or you do not want it, there is no hope for you.

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

Do you have a big goal and BELIEVE it is possible for you?

Master yourself first

“In reading the lives of great men, I found the first victory they won was over themselves.” – Harry S. Truman

If you cannot control your lower impulses, control your attention, think before acting, delay gratification, and do what is right instead of what is easy and what feels good, then you will always have trouble of your own making.

You are your enemy/obstruction/problem, or your best friend and instrument of progress and good.  

Your choice.

Nothing will advance your success and fulfillment more than self-mastery.

Imagination

“Logic will get you from point A to point B, but Imagination will take you anywhere.” -Albert Einstein

Think.  Dream.  It’s the origin of innovation, creation, and adventure. 

Why not? 

Imagine – go nuts.

Being good, and doing good.

Being good is a start.  First do no harm and do not be a burden.

But DOING good – that is something different and better.

“What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.” – Dorthea Dix

What good needs doing?  

You’re up.