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Peers

 
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Peers
by Gerry Atkin - Wednesday, 23 August 2023, 7:21 AM
 

Dr. David M. Cullen conducted a 25-year Harvard study and found that your "reference group," (i.e. the people with whom you choose to spend most of your time with), has the power to impact you and your future in a profound way.


In fact, he found that 99% of your success depends on who you call "my friends."


If you hang with positive, successful, optimistic go-getters who are trying and growing and learning and doing their best to make something of themselves and their future, you WILL become more like them.


On the flip side, if you surround yourself with friends who don't care, don't try to better themselves, or couldn't care less about their future or improving themselves, you WILL become more like them.
Why? Because you're like a chameleon. You absorb the vibes, attitudes, behaviour and "thinking" of those you hang with.


Choose your friends wisely. Someone once said, "You can't change the people around you, but you CAN change the people around you."


Think about that for a minute...we can’t force others to change, but we can choose to surround ourselves with more positive relationships.