THE IMPACT OF THE COMPANY YOU KEEP ON YOUR LIFESTYLE
We have encounter with different people every day, either directly or indirectly and most times there are two things involved from these numerous interaction, it is either they learn from you or you learn from them. The conversations we have on a daily basis have a way of shaping and influencing our thoughts and life has been programmed in a way that it is almost impossible to stop meeting people. However, we have the power to control our thoughts to be able to decide the best influence for us.
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A person who works in an office where his or her colleague/friends are polite, hardworking and punctual will surely develop these traits because they spend most time together and would not like to be left out of the moving train, a positive influence. Whereas, if you have never smoked Marijuana and you have friends who are always talking about it or hanging out to smoke after work, sooner or later you will want to try it out. This is the power of the people we spend our time with on a daily basis. So, it is left to you to choose to follow the good or the bad influence.
There are some people that you will meet in your life that will instill fear into your life. These are people who are never positive about anything in life. If you share a business idea with them they will make you see reason not to start it. If you tell them you want to get married, they will tell you to make more money or tarnish the image of your partner. You may have learnt about some people that will gossip with a man about his wife and make every possible effort to make the man fight his wife and vice versa. So many people's dreams, passion, homes have been destroyed today because of the kind of people they met at one point in their life.
The company you keep can either bring out the best or the worst in you, according to a popular saying. The people we spend time with shapes our life directly or indirectly. The little conversations we have when we are together will creep into our thoughts when we are alone and some of them might make up our habits. A friend once shared that there are these group of girls that she met at a salon and they started discussing about the fact that all men are cheats.
They made it known in their conversation that the man that isn't a cheat is the one that haven't been caught. She started acting on these discussion and began to monitor her husband's movements by checking his phone, car and clothes (for used condoms), just anything that can make him answer questions. Sooner or later she realizes that if she continue with the unnecessary suspicion she will break her home just because of a conversation she had for one day with total strangers.
You need to change your cliques if they are full of negative thoughts because it won't make you progressive. You should be around people who will motivate you when you're losing hope. The people that will see the best in you at every point in your life and support all your good moves. The people that will show you great opportunities when they see one - in short, the group of people that want the best for everybody.
Most times you can not choose the people who you encounter who influence you but you have the absolute power to choose the kind of influence on your life.