We've all heard the phrase, we become like the people we spend our time with, whether it was

Napoleon Hill or Earl Nightingale or it was Biblical. We do truly become like the people we associate

with. The question is, who are you spending your time with and how are you treating those

relationships that matter most? When I was 18 years old, I remember succinctly my dad pulling up

in a Rolls Royce. Crazy, right? To my Honda 125 CC motorcycle, literally a lawn mower on

wheels in front of my apartment that I share with my brother and his girlfriend at the time

in Costa Mesa, California on center street. If you know anything about that, you know what that

was like. And that car pulled up and he walked in and I had not seen him since he had kicked me out

of the house. So, you know, it was a little tumultuous and we spent a little time together and I said,

Dad, you know, get, I've got probably purple hair at the time and he looks at me and he's like,

Tom, you become like the people you spend your time with. We've heard those phrases before,

but there was something about that moment. Maybe it was because I was beginning a new journey of my

life that I was tired of the life that I had or the lifestyle that I had or the, you know, the friction

that I was creating all the time in my life for everyone else. And he literally said to me,

there's only three kinds of people on the planet, positive, neutral and negative. And I was like,

God, and he said, do you have a yellow no pad? I'm like, I don't have a yellow no pad. He went

down to his car, got a yellow no pad, came up with a pen, put it in front of me with a pen and said,

I'd like you to list out all the people in your life that are positive. And I said, what do you mean?

He said, you know, these are the people that are uplifters. They're going to, they're going to challenge

you. They're going to want you to get better, right? When, when you're having a bad day, they're not

going to be in a pity pot party with you. They're actually going to say, come on, let's go do something.

Let's, let's change our state. Let's go learn something new. Let's go try something. Let's go get

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