Bridging the Gap

The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.
Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity. An
important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative
thinking and negative acting people. As you grow, your associates will
change. Some of your friends will not want you to go on. They will want you
to stay where they are. Friends that don't help you climb will want you to
crawl. Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream. Those that
don't increase you will eventually decrease you.

Consider this:
Never receive counsel from unproductive people. Never discuss your problems
with someone incapable of contributing to the solution, because those who
never succeed themselves are always first to tell you how. Not everyone has
a right to speak into your life. You are certain to get the worst of the
bargain when you exchange ideas with the wrong person. Don't follow anyone
who's not going anywhere.

With some people you spend an evening: with others you invest it. Be careful
where you stop to inquire for directions along the road of life. Wise is the
person who fortifies his life with the right friendships. If you run with
wolves, you will learn how to howl. But, if you associate with eagles, you
will learn how to soar to great heights.
"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the
kind of friends he chooses."

The simple but true fact of life is that you become like those with whom you
closely associate - for the good and the bad.

Note: Be not mistaken. This is applicable to family as well as friends.
Yes...do love, appreciate and be thankful for your family, for they will
always be your family no matter what. Just know that they are human first
and though they are family to you, they may be a friend to someone else and
will fit somewhere in the criteria above.

"In Prosperity Our Friends Know Us. In Adversity We Know Our friends."

"Never make someone a priority when you are only an option for them."
"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things,

you develop the habit in little matters.

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.."..

Colin Powell

HOBSONS CHOICE

Yonder across the river,

I see a beautiful city,

Surrounded with lush of green,

Roofed with starry skies,

Its citizens beckon at me,

To join their happy clique,

Denounce my desolate abode,

A tempting offer indeed,

But the river is bellowing,

Welling with vigor and valor,

Daring me to dive,

And risk the loss of my life,

But have I a choice,

Shy away and die anyway,

Or dare to really work,

And maybe, just maybe,

I will succeed.

Crossroads

Someone once said that life is a journey. As you walk though the journey of life, slowly you begin to realize that a journey imposes on you the responsibility of making decisions. You have to make decisions about what pace to take, you have to make decisions about who to accompany you, and most important of all, you have to decide which path to take. Life presents you with crossroads.

Whenever you get to a crossroad, you have to realize that in the path that you take therein lays your destiny. Crossroads, decision points as someone might call them, are the tipping points of our lives, the functions that define the curve of our existence.

The question is, how do you choose a path in the midst of uncertainty? It is in moments like this that the words of Robert Frost, resonate in my mind, ‘’The road not taken “. Many a people will chose to take the path trodden by the majority, the path that’s easier to tread. As someone once said, Taking the path of least resistance makes men, like rivers, crooked. The true path of wisdom is the path that teaches us something, the path that provides opportunities for learning and mistakes, the path that makes us grow, the path that makes as a better person.