Think about the five people you talk to most.
Now think about where you'll both be in five years.
If that question doesn't make you uncomfortable, either you've chosen really well, or you stopped asking it a long time ago.
I know a guy who figured this out at a bowling alley...
Mid-twenties, accountant, broke. One Thursday night he counted: six years of the same complaints with the same people.
Bosses.
Salaries.
The system being rigged for someone who wasn't them.
Six years of going nowhere together.
He quit the league. His wife thought he was having a mid-life crisis. His friends thought he was being dramatic.
He started showing up to a local real estate investor meetup instead. Felt like a complete fraud for a year. Kept going.
He stopped watching four hours of TV a night. Not because he made a rule. Because nobody in that room watched TV. It just stopped feeling like a normal thing to do.
He started saving. Because the people around him saved. Not as a sacrifice. As a completely ordinary habit.
At 32 he owned three rental properties.
Same salary. Same city. Same marriage.
Different room.
The people you spend time with aren't just company.
They're a curriculum.
Their habits are the ones you unconsciously copy. Their version of normal quietly becomes your ceiling. What they treat as impossible, you stop questioning.
You can want more all you like. But if the room you keep going back to treats your goals as slightly embarrassing, that feeling follows you home every single time.
Here's the part that's harder to sit with.
The scary version of this isn't that your circle is holding you back.
It's that you might be holding someone else back in theirs.
Write down your five closest people. Look at the list.
Is that the room that gets you where you're going?
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So I’m at the jump park with my son just relaxing in the massage chair(#dadlife)… and I see a kid jumping in a shoulder sling… guess she didn’t learn the first time 🤦♂️