The Company You Keep
You may or may not realize it, but the company you keep strongly influences your financial success. In wealth creation it’s a matter of attraction, and to maximise that attraction you need to know the rules.
The People Around You
“Opposites attract” does not apply to wealth building. In this case, the law of attraction is like attracting like. In the case of the company you keep—the people you associate and surround yourself with on a daily basis—you need to be keeping company with like-minded people who are dedicated to their personal success.
The more successful and positive-minded people you associate with, the more positivity and success you will draw into your life. Understandably you will run into people of varying levels of positivity and success. It’s okay to build your keep of company with a variety of individuals. The focus is on surrounding yourself with the right attitudes, not necessarily with people with the exact same experiences or strategies as yours (you’d have a hard time finding that lot of identical individuals, now wouldn’t you?)
If you want some proof of this, just think about the people around you or the people whom you know to be either successful or unsuccessful. Who do they associate most with? Who do they rely on for support or commiseration? How does each feed off each other? For positive moral support or for support of victimization and misery? Pay attention when you are with these different types of people and see where you find yourself being pulled—on to success and prosperity or down into negativity and self-pity?
If you take a look at different groups you’ll see that like-minds groups tend to gather and perpetuate the status quo. Through your online and offline relationships, perpetuate the status quo of success and forward movement. Surround yourself with the kinds of successful thinkers and doers that will promote the same in you!
Sean Rasmussen
Wealth Creation Blog
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May 6th, 2009 at 5:06 am
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