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“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose” - Tennessee Williams
At ‘In Over Your Head’, Julien challenges us to be the leader of our networks towards better achievement. He doesn’t just challenge us, he says it’s our duty.
And I couldn’t agree more. I’ve mentioned before that like attracts like and how we can use this as information to determine where we are in our lives and in our businesses.
Like Attracts Like
Creative people like creative people. Intelligent people like talking to other intelligent people. Those who are religious tend to have friends and family who are also religious. Successful people tend to hang out with other successful people.
People who are concerned with health and working out? You got it. They tend to hang out with people who are concerned with health and working out.
You Say You Want A Revolution
One key to stepping up your game, in your life or in your business, is to find people who already have what it is you want. This is the model used in everything from recovery programs to Weight Watchers. And it works.
Stepping up can be difficult, and messy. In fact, statistics show that even steak-eating major corporate players who have a heart attack are unlikely to make lifestyle changes that will prevent a second event. Nine out of ten people who do make these changes are unlikely to maintain them years later. 25% of people who have a heart attack don’t fill their prescriptions and 62% remain at high risk for a second heart attack, largely due to ‘lifestyle factors’.
So Dr. Dean Ornish created a ground-breaking program that resulted in 8 out of 10 of these same types of patients making rigorous lifestyle changes and maintaining them. How’d they do it? He pairs them up with others who had similar lifestyles prior to their attack, but who have made and maintained these changes.
You can apply this to any change you’d like to see, whether it’s lifestyle changes or playing a bigger game in your business. It works.
A Little Trick That The Geese Know
What? Geese? Yeah. Geese fly in a V-formation. They do this to create an uplift so that the entire formation gets more flying range.
But here’s something else they do. The lead goose endures greater wind resistance,
