How often do you hang out with friends?
Think about all of the times you’ve spent together or what you’ve accomplished together!
A lot of us will take our friends for granted, not realising how valuable they can be for accomplishing goals and getting on to the road to success.
Who your friends are can seriously influence where you are in life which is why it’s important to wash out bad friends and surround yourself with good ones.
Whether they’re compassionate friends, supportive friends or friends who you might look up to for inspiration, having friends around you can potentially be the ultimate success maker in your life!
Friends aren’t just there to make you laugh. They are a great source of inspiration as well!
There are likely to be a lot of traits and general things that your friends may possess that are of value to you.
A couple of traits and things you can learn from your friends:
It’s stuff like this that can really mould you into a better person in general. Whether it’s learning how to change how you act or sharpen your skills at a particular job, sport or hard work, hanging out with friends who are striving to achieve hard work, dedication and competence can be true success maker material!
Having compassionate friends may potentially be one of the most important things in life for too many reasons:
There will be instances and occasions where you will feel off. Whether it’s because you had a bad day at work, dealing with customers, messing up an exam or even getting your heartbroken, these things can seriously stress people out and cause them to fall into a spiral of bad habits…
These could involve procrastinating, losing the courage to leave their bed, let alone their rooms and in extreme instances taking advantage of drugs to “relieve the mind” of any stress. With compassionate friends, they’re there to support your journey, showing selflessness to those around them, including you!
If you have friends like this, be grateful and take every moment you can get where they look out for you. They can play as a key success maker in motivating you even on your worst days!
Having a group of friends with similar goals as you is the perfect way to help speed up your road to success in achieving these goals!
Why is this? It’s pretty simple!
If your group of friends are striving towards accomplishing a goal, they’ll learn along the way. Each friend in that group is likely to learn things that the other friend may not.
This allows everyone in the group to share what they learn, helping one another to learn at a far quicker rate.
You might be able to achieve the goal alone, but it’s likely to take longer as you need to learn everything through your own personal effort.
So if there’s a perfect way to achieve goals quicker and easier, having a group of friends with similar interests and goals is the perfect success maker recipe!
I’m sure we’ve all met some bad friends in our lifetime. If not then you are very lucky!
But what do we define as a best friend? Well if we’re talking about achieving success whether that be accomplishing goals or perhaps being a better person morally for example, a bad friend in my opinion would be defined as someone who will try to bring you down and stop you from achieving those goals!
Why might this be? Well if you know who David Goggins is, he stated that,
Bad friends may be jealous of the fact that you are striving to be successful, especially if they know you’re carving your way through that road to success.
On the other hand, a good friend will encourage you to continue on that road, wanting the best for you.
It might be that they show you compassion, encouragement or offer opportunities and ideas that will help you to achieve those goals for success!
No matter what you’re striving to achieve, hanging out with friends who want you to open your horizon are only going to end up encouraging you to achieve those goals even more!
When you consider that approximately 280 million people in the world are diagnosed with depression with significantly more cases undiagnosed or untreated, it’s absolutely important to have someone in your corner to look out for your mental health.
This is what makes compassionate friends incredibly valuable in day-to-day life.
On your worse days, they can truly make the difference in changing your mood.
You have to remember that for you to continue on a road to success in achieving goals, you need to be productive. For productivity to arise, you need to be mentally prepared to work hard.
This is simply too difficult to accomplish if you are depressed or mentally stressed!
This was a famous quote stated by motivational speaker Jim Rohn and it couldn’t be any truer!
The quote is very self-explanatory in that it implies that the people you hang out with will influence your behaviour. Surround yourself with bad friends and you become a good friend; surround yourself with good friends and you become a good friend. It’s that simple!
For this very reason, if you surround yourself with friends who are successful or on the road to success, there will be a very likely chance that you will also be on that road to success as well!
What could be defined as success you might wonder? Well, it’s a pretty broad term and it can range from anything like nailing your grades as school to being more financially independent and wealthy!
But is it that you become the average of the people you spend most time with? Well it all links back to the previous point about being in a group of friends with similar goals and interests.
You end up learning from one another, and learning together, because you’re striving towards an end outcome. As a result, a sort of chain effect is set off, speeding up your progress towards that outcome.
This is the true value of surrounding yourself with the right friends!
Last but certainly not least, it’s pretty safe to say that hanging out with friends and simply relaxing and having fun is a fundamental part of a successful relationship with them.
It’s what helps when it comes to raising your confidence in social situations as well as your social awareness for your mates. This is very important if you’re too shy or an “extroverted introvert” as some might say.
Furthermore, Hanging out with friends, having a laugh or going out is just a fundamental part of having a healthy work-life balance.
Continually working towards a goal can be mentally straining which is why spending time with friends is a great way to take a break and refresh the mind to be prepared to work harder later on!
So don’t just find friends to learn from and take advantage of for your benefit of getting on the road to success in achieving personal goals. Spend time with them, have fun, get to know with them and develop a great relationship with them.
This is exactly what seals a healthy friendship in the long term!
