Making Money – What Your Friends Have to do With It

Think your friends have nothing to do with making money. Think again…

The type of friends you keep and how they think could be restraining your potential. If making money is your thing, then you should be spending your time with friends who are doing so and amongst other things energetic about life.

Do you have friends who just seem to get you down talking about how life is difficult and unfair? Friends, who within five minutes of being in your company drain the life out of you with their way of thinking and attitude to life. Compare that to friends who have the opposite effect, who make you feel so good, you always want to be around them.

Am sure you have both type of friends, we all do. The problem is not in having these energy zapping friends, but rather in understanding them and knowing where they fit in your life. What I have found over the years is that they are this way because of their experiences and until their thinking is changed, their attitude will remain the same.

I was with one such friend the other day. Our time together filled with nothing but negativity. He was also a salaried employee, so unlike other friends who ran their own businesses and were excited about their business, making money, making a difference, he had nothing to talk about except not having enough money, wanting a better job and so on. I found I could not share ideas with him, while I was interested in talking about possibilities he was concerned with life’s difficulty.

You don’t recognise how much effect his or her attitude has until you find yourself within a short period of parting meeting another friend, one who is more encouraging, and on a mission to better his or her self. Their company makes you feel re-energised and determined to take on the world. And where you have the same aspirations you find that seeing what is possible becomes easier.

The point is you have some friends who are not on the same path as you, and in most cases impede and wear you down with their inability to deal with life. Their thinking is not as yours and for this reason, they cannot help you because they do not see what you see.

Do you stop being friends with these energy zapping and life is hard people? No, not at all, I am still friends with mine, and so should you. What you could do is limit your time with them, and if required only meet in a social setting. However, as you reduce your exposure to this group of friends, you should also be spending more time meeting with people who have the same goals as you, people who are busy doing something about their life.