Leading and Love

The community surrounding your marriage plays a huge factor in your marriage. That community includes family, friends, and other types of relationships. All of these relationships are participating in various types of events and undergoing their own types of changes, all of which feedback to you in some capacities.

Idea #1

You might be adopting values that contradict your core values.  If the people around you are competing with you, someone is going to lose. People who compete with you want what you have. The people around you should want what you want, not what you have.

Idea #2

You might be unknowingly abandoning key tenets of your value system. This means that you are outnumbered in your circle.

Quote #1

“The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success.” -John C. Maxwell

Quote #2

“Surround yourself with good people; surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better.” -Ali Krieger

Quote #3

“It's important to surround yourself with good people, interesting people, young people, young ideas. Go places, learn new stuff. Look at the world with wonder - don't be tired about it.” -Angela Bassett

Challenge

Do a quick sweep of the people in your life and see which ones fall into the following categories:

• Key partnerships

• Positive contributors

• Stowaways

• People you don’t like
  
  

Affirmation

The people around me add value to my life.