You can’t get better than the company you keep. Do you want to make an impact in the world? If you do, then get around achievers, because you ultimately become like anyone you spend a lot of time with. Are you in a relationship that is snuffing the life out of you or intoxicating your morals? Be bold enough to walk out of such relationship. It’s better to be alone and be safe, than to be in the wrong company that’s heading for doom. Do away with negative people from your life, and make room for positive-minded people who are heading somewhere.
I read this beautiful story about choosing the right company. “For years, Monterey, California was a Pelican’s paradise, filled with fish canneries. The bird loved it because they didn’t have to fish for a meal; they just feasted on the fish lying around the coastline. After sometimes, the fish became depleted along the coast, and the pelicans got into trouble.
Pelicans are great fishers. They fly in groups over the waves, and when they find fish they dive and scoop them up. However, these group of Pelicans in California had not fished in years because they got fish easily along the coast, so, they’d grown fat and lazy. Now their easy meals were gone, and they were dying off. After trying different things, environmentalists finally found a way to keep them from becoming extinct. They imported pelicans from other areas that were used to hunting every day, and integrated them with the local birds. It worked! The newcomers immediately began fishing for food, and it wasn’t long before these starving pelicans began to do the same”
According to Dr. Paul Enenche, “Iron sharpens iron. So look for the kind of person that sharpens you. Beware of who you call your friend. Friendship is by choice and not by force.” In the words of Jesus, “When a blind man leads a blind man, they both end up in the ditch”. Beware of who you are associating with. Every relationship should be productive and mutually beneficial. If you are limiting yourself to fiends who have nothing to offer and keep you in a secured but shrunken world, then you have to choose some set of new friends, before you become champion of non-entities.
Place yourself in the company of people who motivate, educate, compliment, and bring out the best in you. It’s just a matter of time before you start talking and acting like the company you keep. It’s more rewarding to be in the company of people that are more knowledgeable than you, and learn at every given opportunity even at the risk of being laughed at, than to remain in a relationship where everybody is ignorant of the next step to take.
You can’t mingle with negative people and expect to have a positive outcome in life. If you’re serious about making progress in life, then help yourself by spending time with those people who are already up there or know what they are doing. You can do this either by having one or one relationship with them. If that is not possible, get their books or video and grow with them.
It’s not good to be alone, as we know a tree cannot make a forest. So choose your friends wisely and carefully that will help you to achieve your purpose of creation.
Excerpts:
- Dr Paul Enenche- Article on “Iron sharpens Iron”
- Bob Gass: Discovering Your Destiny; find out what you were born to be.
