BRX Pro Tip: Be Careful Who You Spend Time With
Stone Payton: And we’re back with Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor, Stone Payton here with you. Lee, what’s your take, perspective on this idea that you’re the average of the five people you hang out with?
Lee Kantor: Yeah, I think that’s something Jim Rohn said a long, long time ago. I think it still holds weight, and it’s one of those things where you don’t – I guess you take for granted the people you’re around the most, and you don’t kind of recognize the fact that you are the average of those five people or so that you spend the most time with.
Lee Kantor: And what you have to do if you believe this is kind of level up your five people. I mean, first, audit your five people. Just list who are the people you’re spending the most time with, and ask yourself, are they kind of building me up or are they supporting my success? Or are they helping me get to a new level? Or are they kind of affecting me negatively? Are they kind of sabotaging me, or are they doing things that are not helping me become the best me I can be? Am I growing or am I kind of coasting? Am I plateauing here? Do I have to kind of uplevel the five people around me?
Lee Kantor: You have to kind of be honest about who it is you’re around, because sometimes you have one or two people in that group that are just pulling your standards down, and they’re keeping you from being the best you you can be.
Lee Kantor: And, you know, go out there and meet more people and add some people that you intentionally spend more time with that can help you kind of get ahead a little bit in terms of your character, your health, your relationship, your business. You can find these people; they’re around you. You’re just not spending time with them.
Lee Kantor: And you have to really kind of create distance around the people that are negatively impacting you. You don’t have to kind of cut them off dramatically, but you can just slowly reduce the amount of time you’re spending with them because you need people.
Lee Kantor: Life is hard enough. If you have saboteurs around you, you’re making your life harder. You need to surround yourself with people that are supporting and celebrating your work, and helping you become a better person.
Lee Kantor: You can’t do this alone. You have to replace the people that are holding you back, and you have to find people that are going to push you forward.
Lee Kantor: So, invest time in auditing who those five people are and finding people that are going to match your ambitions and help you get to where you want to go.
