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It Is Better To Be Alone, Than In The Wrong Company
Today's lesson deals with friendship- The less you associate with some
people, the more your life will improve. Any time you tolerate mediocrity
in others, it increases your mediocrity. An important attribute in
successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative
acting people. As you grow, your associates will change. Some of your
friends will not want you to go on. They will want you to stay where they
are. Friends that don't help you climb will want you to crawl. Your
friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream. Those that don't
increase you will eventually decrease you. Consider this:
* Never receive counsel from unproductive people.
* Never discuss your problems with someone incapable of contributing
to the solution, because those who never succeed themselves are always first
to tell you how. Not everyone has a right to speak into your life. You are
certain to get the worst of the bargain when you exchange ideas with the
wrong person.
* Don't follow anyone who's not going anywhere. With some people you
spend an evening: with others you invest it.
* Be careful where you stop to inquire for directions along the road of
life.
* Wise is the person who fortifies his life with the right friendships.
If you run with wolves, you will learn how to howl. But, if you
associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights. "A
mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the
kind of friends he chooses." The simple but true fact of life is that you
become like those with whom you closely associate - for the good and the
bad. --by P. W. Caballero
Posted By: WILLIAM W. HEMMANS III
Friday, February 10th 2006 at 3:06PM
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