In this video, I wanted to talk about one of my favorite quotes. And that quote is a quote by someone by the name of Jim Ron. And the quote is, you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Now, if you've noticed, when you hang around other people, friends family, that generally it's just easier to kind of get into their ways. If you hang out with people that let's say, eat poorly all the time, you know, they go, you go to a restaurant with them, and they're ordering junk food, it's gonna be a lot easier for you to do that. Same thing.

If you hang out with people that play video games all the time, you're probably going to end up playing video games with them. The same goes for if you hang out with people that do drugs or drink a lot of alcohol, you're probably going to become a party person. And you even hear it all the time. I always see people coming to me saying things like, oh, such and such has a really bad influence because they hang out with these other people. And it's just really, really common that you kind of pick up the the trends of other people that you hang out with. So something that I've battled with quite a bit is that I've grown up with other people that I've had struggles with, I used to go out to a bar with a friend of mine, you know, we'd be trying to meet some new women and maybe like flirt with other women.

And he was probably the most unconfident person I've ever met, he would not approach anyone, he made every excuse in the book, not to approach women. So that really kind of daunted my confidence, it made it harder for me to want to get out there. But if I had gone out to a bar with, let's say, a friend that wanted to really go out there, and he wants to talk to all the women in the place, he's just really social, makes you really kind of feel alive, then my whole perspective would have kind of changed. Now, I don't want to completely like blame someone else for me, not being able to go out and do this, but it definitely doesn't really help the situation. I was kind of, I've always been sort of the person that was kind of been a follower. And I would follow other people kind of go in their lead.

And it was something I've struggled with for many years. Now that I've kind of started turning more into an entrepreneur and thinking like more of an entrepreneur, I've had a real reflection of looking At the people I hang out with, and kind of cutting back on hanging out with people that sort of bring me down. They they're really negative all the time. They make it harder to want to have success. You know, if I tell them stories about how I'm doing something and I'm trying to make money on the internet, if they're being really negative towards me, then then that might not be someone that I want to associate with. There's other people around that are going to be willing to lift you up.

They're going to want to help you succeed more, they're going to be interested in helping you succeed. I've I've met many, many people through the internet, people and all different areas of the world. You know, my partner when I did this SEO service I mentioned he lives in Canada, never even met him face to face and you know, I remember when we started out he said, Yeah, none of my friends are into this stuff. And you know, he had a goal of buying like a ski home for himself with straight up cash. You know, he didn't want to take out a loan. He wanted to go spend, you know, something like 200 or $300,000 buying a ski home so you can go out there and ski anytime you wants and just basically have little vacations for him and his family never have to worry about paying for that.

And that's kind of his dream what he really wanted. So I just thought that was really interesting. You know, when you hang out with people like that, it really just kind of changes your perspective on a lot of things. So really, I wanted to throw this video out there because, you know, think about the people that you're hanging out with, think about how they're kind of reflecting on you. Are they kind of bringing you down? Are they negative all the time?

Are you kind of finding that you're hanging around people that are making it harder for you to accomplish your goals? You know, are you saying something like, well, I want to stay in on a Friday night because I need to work on my blog, or I'd like to work on something that's going to help me make money, maybe it's making a Udemy course whatever it is, if they're not supportive in your decision, and they really just kind of are bringing you in a wrong direction that's going to help you that's going to prevent you from succeeding, then you really need to take a look at those people and decide if there's someone that you want to continue to hang around with. I know Another example I wanted to bring up was, my girlfriend actually has this friend that lives out in California. And they love to basically smoke weed.

You know, it's a very common thing nowadays in California, you can go out there and basically get it legally. And I had never met the girl in person, but we decided to go on a vacation out there. And I could not believe I mean, this girl literally wanted to smoke every five minutes. And she was jobless. She was basically losing her boyfriend losing her apartment. And I told my girlfriend, I said, This girl is really not a good influence on you.

I think you should spend less time speaking with her because she's just going to drag you down. And when we actually finished our vacation, I think their relationship kind of dwindled a little bit and they don't talk the way they were before now that she kind of realized how much this friend was really dragging her down. So that's just an example of kind of a situation. You know, my girlfriend went through but I've dealt with similar things. Like I said, just something to keep in mind. I really wanted to Throw this one out there because it is very, very important.