# You are the five people you spend the most time with

> Show me your friends and I will show you your future. Why the people around you decide more than you think, and what to do when they pull against you.

- Author: Rajesh Namase
- Published: 2015-01-16
- Category: Life
- Canonical: https://namase.com/five-people-you-spend-time-with

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You are the 5 people you spend the most time with. Show me your friends and I'll show you your future.

In other words, if you hang around people who have no ambitions, who are lazy, who are negative and no desire to improve their lives at all, your chances of success are minimal.

If you spend time with people who are ambitious, driven, passionate and who make things happen, your chances of success greatly increase. Energy and success rubs off on people.

Take a good look at who you spend a lot of time with, and if they don't line up with where you want to go, it may be time to consider changing your social circle.

The majority of people who I personally hang out with are fit, healthy, passionate about life, making 6 or 7 figures a year and are just driven to succeed and make the most out of every single day. Any time I slack off and I see my friends kicking butt it motivates me to get back to getting things done.

If you, on the other hand, slack off and all your friends do nothing anyways, you have no motivation to go and work hard again. You just justify it by saying "all my friends chill out and do nothing anyways, so it's okay".