“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” – Jim Rohn

“The interesting thing about money, skills, success, and happiness is that they are never absolute.  They are all entirely relative.  Your limits for each of them were largely determined by the people you spent the most time with, and the culture you grew up in.  This is a fairly obvious observation, but why don’t more people take advantage of its implications?

Your outlooks are surprisingly plastic.  To change them, it’s simply a matter of removing yourself from the environment and the norms you’ve grown accustomed to, and surrounding yourself with people who are at the level you want to reach.

If you truly dive into a new environment, your old mentality will always adapt to it, and your resulting worldview will manifest itself in your behaviors, decisions, and actions. In other words, the people you spent so much time with will have drastically changed the way you think and act, whether you like it or not.

If you want to change your life, change your social circle.  Spend as much time as you can with people who have achieved your desired state, and let them sculpt your views.

Accept the fact that you’re inevitably going to change as a result, and embrace it!  As you talk with and observe them over the course of several months, they will slowly fade from “remarkable” and eventually become “normal.”  Their thoughts and actions will no longer seem wildly above your abilities — just more intelligent and calculated than you’ve been used to.

You’ll wake up one day, and realize your benchmark has been raised.  And you will hold yourself to a new standard.”

Snippets of an amazing well-written article: “The Easiest Way to change your life” by Charlie Hoehn