Personal Money Tips

If you want your life to change, “Stop Hanging Around The Same People”. This year I’ve decided to deliberately spend less time around a group of people. The reason being, I noticed myself being conditioned to think in a certain way. Although it might sound harsh and some even think I’m a bit selfish, I chosed to stick with my decision. And it is a rather difficult decision since I’ve many friends and relationships there. The reason I decided to do so is the unspoken values that is put forth in the group don’t jive with mine anymore.

I came to notice this because I hang around 3 groups of people with very diverse values and focus. One of the groups of people I hang out with often is in the place of work. The other is the social non profit group and lastly a leadership training class I’m attending. Within these major groups of people, are off course subgroups.

For instance, in the work place group, there are those who believes there is a need to keep on climbing higher, regardless whether the ladder is leaning on the right wall or not. There are those who while knowing the work in a place to earn major amounts of money, think they like to develop other business on the side.

The interesting thing I noticed for myself is when I’m with a certain group of people, my thinking pattern is affected. Not matter how hard I tried not to be influenced, I found I’m influenced whether I like it or not. The choices and decision I tend to make is very much oriented towards those values.

Another place that affects my thinking is a group of online friends. Now they are not really friends that I meet and have a drink with. In fact I’ve not met even one of them, but their writing and blogs influence my perspective. This group forces me to think a lot about the delivery of information today. A bit on the cutting edge but more so about the huge and wide opportunity for people to make money today that was not available just a few years ago.

Now, who you hang out with have a huge influence on what you do financially. Whether you like it or not, you do roughly the same things with who you hang out with regularly. You might be different and I can’t say it for you, but that’s true for me at least.

So if your life or your financial life isn’t heading the way you want it to be, after you have gotten down doing your budget, saving money and all the other necessary stuff, one area to look at a is the buddies you hang around with. Choose carefully who you hang around with. It has a major impact on the bottom line. Your bottom line!

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