THE FIRST FOUR

“ Give me six hours to chop down a tree,  and I will spend the first four  sharpening the ax.”   - Abraham Lincoln
 The people we surround ourselves with 
are the biggest influence 
on our behavior, 
attitudes and results. 

Who you are around ,

what they’ve got 
you thinking, 
saying, doing 
and becoming,
sets the course of your life.
 “You are the average 
of the five people 
you spend the 
most time with.”  - Jim Rohn

Social scientists say the people you spend the most time with 

tend to shape who you are. 
They determine what conversations dominate your attention. 

They affect to which attitudes and behaviors you are regularly exposed. 

Eventually you start to think like they think and behave like they behave.

 No matter what you believe about what the social scientists say ...

You can agree it is hard to stay positive when surrounded by negative people!

Even if you do what you feel is right, you will not get as far if, around you,

you do not have people who hold you to a higher standard ...

who by their very example show you it can be done.


I am far better now than I would have been

because of the friendship of Sandra Thrasher and the example shown by her entire family.

If you truly are the average of the five people in your life,

what kind of person are you?

Has there been one person who touched your life with wisdom and friendship?