You know what no one tells you when you're trying to change your life, that the hardest part isn't the work. It's not the long nights, it's not the failures, it's the people that you'll outgrow. Alex asks a great question for today's Q&A Wednesday. How do I deal with negative friends? And here's the hard truth. You don't deal with them. You replace them. You get new friends. That might sound harsh, but you're trying to become

something new. You're trying to build something great. And if they're pulling you into the old

patterns, the old ways, you've got to choose them or your future. I'm going to show you how.

But real quick, if you have a question that you want to ask here on Q&A Wednesday, just go to 100mBA.net slash Q and you could submit your question to be answered

right here on the podcast. Welcome back to the $100 MBA show. I'm your host, Omar Zen Home,

where I deliver practical business

lessons three times a week, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to help you start, grow, and scale

your business. The first thing we need to agree on is an equation. The equation I present to you

is the friends you keep equals the life you keep. When I quit my teaching career

and became a full-time entrepreneur about 13 years ago, I had to let go of almost all my friends.

Not because there were bad people or they were mean to me, but because they led me to the life

I already had and I wanted something different. I wanted something new.

If you want a new destination, you can't keep driving the same route. Okay, you have to change.

And Jim Rohn said it best, you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

That quote literally changed my life and everything for me because it taught me

that if I want to become something new, I got to be around different people. Your environment

and the people in it will shape how you think, what you believe, how you behave, and how far

you're willing to push for what you want. If the people around you are always complaining,

doubting, playing it safe, not pushing themselves, it's not long before that becomes your

default to. It's just how it is. Don't question it. Don't think that you're different. Don't

think that that will happen to you.

That's just the truth. Number two, most people want you to stay the same. This is tough to admit, but most

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