Changing your environment

[MoneyMagnet]

Have any of you realized that your current friends are not helping with your progression...that maybe you might have to get new friends that are geared towards your same success/goals?

How did you handle it? What did you do

[Ian]

Whenever my dad trys to bring me down I just say to him "I don't want to hear it, I'm going to do this, you might not have any balls but i'll be damned if I haven't." that kinda thing anyway :P it's good having a soft old sod for a father ;]

Ian

[Gigolo]

Haha Ian, basically the same thing happens between my father and myself. Whenever he is involved in getting something done with me, it takes forever to get done, and the results are usually incorrect. It's better for me to either completely ignore him, or to just nod and smile and then run off and do it my way.

[Ian]

It's funny mate, normally it's the father it's firey and fearsome :P it's quite the opposite in my household i'm afraid.

Ian

[zoobie]

At some point, yes.

I weigh things over. It's not that easy to change friends. If I think I'm doing the right thing, I speak up. If they continue, I ignore them. If I think they have a point, I consider it. We have our own differences anyway.

[Aletheides]

Money, everyone is like this since nobody likes to see someone else achieve more than them. Its not your choice of friends, just human nature.

Be self motivated and treat your mind like a castle which no negative thoughts can enter. If you know everyone you share your ideas with will only nitpick, dont share them anymore (this is what I do at least).

[silversurfer]

when I turned 20 I realized that my old group of friends must be left behind for me to succeed. so I did. The thing is that they were really not good people, so it didn't bother me.