Most Peoples Lives Are A Direct Reflection Of The Expectations Of Their Peer Group!

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"Most Peoples Lives Are A Direct Reflection Of The Expectations Of Their Peer Group!" - Tony Robbins.

I believe that if your peer group of friends in your immediate surroundings mostly spend their life doing average things such as go to work at a 9/5 job, live paycheck to paycheck, pay their bills, and hang out at the pub almost every weekend discussing all their miseries over a pint, then it almost becomes not necessary to strive for any greater for yourself.

This is because these people do not have any higher expectations for themselves, therefore they really wouldn't have any higher expectations of you. And you won't feel any immediate urge to do anything more than what they are doing. You may even find yourself dumbing down your goals and ambitions somewhat, just so that you can remain a good fit in this circle of friends, or you just end up making so much time for them, that you don't have any time left to pursue your bigger dreams, even if you wanted to.

But if you find yourself amongst a peer group that has a higher set of standards, and they are entrepreneurial minded and always strive to make the most of their time by aiming for, and accomplishing extraordinary things, and they live an awesome lifestyle that may include lots of traveling, or anything that we would consider a great life, if you hang with these types of people, you may find yourself automatically striving for more as well, and you will set higher standards for yourself, because simply talking about how you were able to pay your next bill would not be a good story that will impress them.

Personally I think it's very important that if you have bigger goals, ambitions, and want to raise your standards for yourself, it then becomes very important that you choose your environment and the people you hang with very wisely. This way you will always be aiming for more, and you would also have open minded people around you to present your new big business idea to, without receiving either blank stares, or negative close minded "stop dreaming" responses.

Q 1. Do you agree with any of this?

Or do you believe that no matter how average and non ambitious your immediate group of friends are, that you can still break out and do big things regardless of having no immediate entrepreneurial friends / family to motivate and support you?

Q 2. Do you find that your current life style is a direct reflection of your
immediate group of friends / associates etc? As in, if you look at them,
would you say that your life is fairly similar?

Q 3. If it meant improving your life dramatically, would you consider letting go of,
or spending less time with your current people, in exchange for going out and
meeting a new group of more ambitious people, so that you can be motivated
to strive for more?

Looking forward to your responses.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sir Eliot Dundee
    If you strive to be irreversibly successful then you must program the mind constantly with a positive stimulus. So theoretically you must engulf key people in your circle who share the same aspirations and goals.
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  • Profile picture of the author sttbs
    Yes. Completely agrees with you - your social circle will impact your personal development to a certain extent.

    I have came across a quote somewhere made by a famous businessman (forgot his name) - your performance is the average of the performances of your 5 closest friends
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