Surronding myself with POSITIVE people

Good leaders are good followers. I had some failures in my life and I haven't blamed anyone for it. I know I had made some wrong decisions in the past but still NO REGRETS. Life must go on.

I am a huge believer that surrounding yoruself with wealthy minded people will only help in your business. But to me personally, wealth and making lots of money isn't my only goal in life (far from it) so I dont limit my contact with non-wealthy minded people and have many "free-floater" friends and to be perfectly honest, I can be the most real and most honest around them.

What I do make sure of is that I surround myself with positive minded people. If you aren't ambitious but are super positive, that can rub off on me personally and professional just as much as somebody who is wealthy-minded.


So I take a bit of a different direction than most

I have cut friends out of my life when they were, shall we say, less than supportive, and certainly negative... I have no regrets... sometimes we keep a friendship way beyond what we should just because of history, but if the reason you are friends doesn't exist anymore and all you get is negativity, arguments, put downs... they already aren't really a friend and you are just hanging on...

Great post. I read somewhere that your AVERAGE income, would be approx the same of the 10 people in your life that you spend the most time with. I have cut out many friends, but thats business. im thinking long term for my business - and if this helps (which it has), in my eyes, its a sacrifice well made

I discovered the same, when I am among optimistic people (wealthy or not) my mood is good, I have more energy. The other way round with the pesimists, you start to have negative thoughts, start complaining as they do. I did not completely stop my contact with my pesimistic friends, but cut it back and try to concentrate on positive things when among them.

What I did too, some years ago, stop to watch the news and reading newspaper. My friends think I am crazy, but I feel so much better now. If there is anything I really need to know, I am sure somebody will tell me.

My motto: don´t worry feel happy - and it works most of the time.

Yes, the law of attraction really works. But it does in both ways, if you concentrate on good things and feel positve it attracts goods things into your life. But if you have negative emotions and thoughts it will attract unpleasant things too.

Both happened to me already and since I understood the law I do my best to feel good. Let me give you only a few examples.

Years ago I moved to another city because of a new job, looking for a nice house to rent. I drove to a lovely area, nice houses, many trees, not far to work. I remember clearly that I thought this would be the ideal place to live and felt it too. Gues what, 2 month later I moved in a house exactly in that area, same street I drove down. Best thing it was also a company house with less rent than normal.

Same with the house we bought a few years later. We had an appointment with an agent at a house in the countryside. I thought immediately this is it, the house I dreamed of. Then we saw the agent and she explained to us that this is not the house she wanted to show to us. She already had clients for this one and they signed the contract already. I thought that this could not be right, because I felt this house was made for us. Guess what, 3 weeks later the agent called and asked if we were still interested in that house, the owners could not finance it. We lived there for 13 happy years.

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Have a great week and enjoy life!

In my opinion everyone living on this planet is positive -- deep down in their heart they have this urge to have more success, lots of love in relationship, more fun and more peace. But some hide it from others because they just don't like to show...but, secretly they may be working toward their goals. Now, there are other people who have this inner positive feelings but their circumstances, past skills, age and other myriad of factors keep them off from taking positive steps.
Now, my point is everyone is positive but people differ when it comes to take action by taking risks, by stretching ourselves, by going the extra mile, or by working hard. Surely, if people in your circle doesn't match these parameters you can cut off slowly so that you can control their 'lack of' from affecting your own abundance.

They don't necessarily need to be wealthy-minded, but they do need to have the same or similar positive attitudes and opinions of things in general. There's nothing wrong with hanging out with your old friends that you may be complete polar opposites of you when it comes to mindset, but for you to truly advance in your chosen path, you'll probably have to end up limiting contact with them.

Some of the naysayers can be so exhausting that talking to be them for more than 30 minutes a day can literally leave you emotionally exhausted and unmotivated. Sometimes I feel that some negative people we come into contact with are secretly envious of us, and cannot stand to see us have such a positive outlook on life and things in general. As a result, they employ every means necessary to drag us down to their depths - with people like that you have to be extra careful and limit contact with them to the bare minimum.

If you want to have a beautiful life, go with the positive people.

I think this is the key to happiness - not to mention a better mindset.

Always choose the positive people, they will give whereas the negative will only take from you

Its always better to be with positive people, but if you can - turn negative people to less negative, or the best - to positive. At least you'll have their affection, and then its easier to be with them.

I believe if surround yourself with negative people they can start to rub off on you.

I only have 1 friend from my J-O-B that I still talk to. Everyone else had an employee-mentality that only brought me down.

Great thread!

This is a great thread. I have always loved the quote, "if you find yourself in a hole... Stop Digging!"

That includes staying away fro the people who want to drag you back in after you have climbed out...

I allways had the power to rid of people that have bad influence on me. Even when I was young I was able to say godbay to person in wich I was madly in love if he had bad influence on me. It was hard but I was proud of myself. I continued to do that in my business and private life. Now I can say that I'm mostly surrounded with positive people. And those few that are negative can't come to their full expression of negativism because we ignore them when they try.

I get more and more picky about who I consider a friend, and I have been separating from those who do not provide support and meaningful interaction. Life is too short to waste time with people who bring you down or take advantage of you.