Levare Wellbeing Development

YOU ARE THE SUM OF THE 5 PEOPLE YOU SPEND THE MOST TIME WITH

Being selective with your best friends becomes more strategic over the years, and for good reason. It's been said that the five people closest to you shape your success, your interests and much more about you.

Here are a few reasons that the five people who get the majority of your time should be put in your innermost circle with purpose, not by accident.

• Your intellect needs to be stimulated.

If you're surrounding yourself with people who never ask you tough, thought-provoking questions, you'll never be living up to your full potential to conceptualize those answers.

• Your opinion of yourself might drastically improve.

Hanging with someone you want to be like will make you more like them, and you're going to start realizing value in yourself where you may not have seen it before once you get more of them in your life.

• You might gain a mentor, or become one.

If you find someone with qualities you hold in high regard who's willing to discuss them and help you develop those qualities on your own, keep them close, and extend your time if the tables are turned.

• You'll likely develop healthier habits, and that means looking and feeling better every day.

Are you hanging with a crowd that never works out, eats like crap and doesn't value a good ol' fashioned weekend off from drinking? Then kiss your 8-minute mile and summer bod aspirations goodbye until further notice.

• You'll attract someone positive, amazing and conscientious about all of the above

Taking stock in the value that people add or remove from your life means you will draw someone to you who does the same, and the cycle of self-improvement and general awesomeness perpetuates itself.

Here's a little video of explaining where choosing your casual audience (people you choose to spend time with) makes a big difference: