Choose your friends wisely

How you approach achieving your goals in life plays a major role in your success. Having a negative mindset will significantly affect your ability to achieve your goals. Sometimes external influences such as your friends and family can shape the way you view success and can even create doubt in your mind towards your own personal and financial goals.

If you are going to achieve your dreams and goals and live the life you want, it is essential to stay positive and surround yourself with positive people and positive influences that energise you rather than drain you. You MUST avoid energy drainers at all costs. Energy drainers are the people in your life that feed on negativity and aren’t supportive of your goals. I truly believe that most people are a direct product of their environment and the people they spend the most time with, so it is essential that you choose your friends wisely. Basically, if you want to be more positive and achieve more in your life, spend more time with the people that make you happy and make you feel like what you want is possible, and spend less time with the people that make you unhappy and are unsupportive of your dreams. At the end of the day, negativity will block your focus and sabotage you from seeing and progressing towards your future possibilities.

I also avoid the news and encourage you to cut down on the negative news that consumes your world. Don’t spend more than 30 minutes a day (or better yet cut it out altogether) watching the news or reading the paper, because most of what you’ll see and hear is just negative.

Finally, to stay positive, stop focusing on your weaknesses and what you can’t-do. Instead, focus on your strengths and getting great at what you are already good at. And surround yourself with a team of people who can help you in areas where you are not as strong. If you can focus on your strengths, and become the best version of yourself whilst building an amazing team who can help you with your weaknesses, then you will be unstoppable in achieving whatever you dream of.