Helen Pickard

Have The Best People Around!

Surround yourself with the best people! Is the sixth of the twelve pillars, and can be described by a saying in the book “Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high”

O.K. this is where it gets a little interesting.

To understand this you have to look at your life and those people who you associate with the most, you need to understand that sometimes your friends, family even co-workers are the reason you are standing still in your pursuit of success.

Twelve Pillars teaches us a technique designed to help us create a basis for all our associations on our life path, but it is up to us to follow it, at first it might be difficult to put into practise but, and this is the big but, you will only succeed by associating with people who are successful or those who are driving themselves on to success.

The technique talked about in the book is this:- YOU place every person you know already and those who you will meet in the future into three categories: 1/ Disassociation, 2/ Limited association and 3/ Expanded association.

1/ Disassociation – Break links with those who hold you back, negative, lazy, depressing, cup half empty rather than half full types. (even if they are your best friend!)

2/ Limited association – for those who are positive but in reality are not actively progressing on a success path (maybe a good place for very close and old friends as well)

3/ Expanded association – Now here is where you put all those positive, active, creative, successful, the want to do and have to have people.

Number 3, expanded association types are those who will enable you to grow into that successful entrepreneur you want to be, if you show the right levels of your own activity in building your success they will want to be around you as much as you want to be around them.

Eventually you will aspire to be like them!

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