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15 Minutes to Freedom

E33 Associations Matter

15 Minutes to Freedom

Ryan Niddel

Personal Journals, Motivational, Entrepreneurship, Business, Body, Meditation, Society & Culture, Relationships, Journal

3.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

For so long I wondered why things in my life weren’t changing. It’s easy to look back now and see the people around me were bringing me down. If you constantly surround yourself with negative people, how can you expect anything positive to come out of life? Listen as I explore past and present associations and the effect they’ve had on my life.

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This is The

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A

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15 minutes. This is 15 minutes to freedom.

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I'm your host Ryan Nidell

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and today's episode is Associations

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Matter. So I've heard over and over my life that you are the sum total the five

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people you surround yourself with and you know it's one of those things that Gary

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Vanertruc has said a lot about and obviously that trickles down into or not

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necessarily trickles into but you know other social influences other

0:29.6

successful entrepreneurs say that as well and I for a while thought that was complete

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bullshit. You know I look at the number of people that I associate with and the close friends

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that I have and I thought that my level was the level of my life was increasing every

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day. You know I have great friends, great people in my life and

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thought boy like that's kind of bullshit. The only thing that makes it important

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that you surround yourself the five greatest people is if you're

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willing to consistently push each other and level each other up. You can surround

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yourself with great people, you know, really

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phenomenal, you know, beacons of what they see in their industry as success, but if you're

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not pushing yourself to drive at their level, then you're really just hanging out with them.

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You're not, you're not growing.

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So I started diving into this a little bit more personally and go back into the time of my life

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when I was in the car business. You know, I had a great friend named Dominic Turnock.

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