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 c.C. motorcycle literally a lawnmower 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 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 and 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 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, got it.

He said, do you have a yellow notepad?

I'm like, I don't have a yellow notepad.

He went down to his car, got a yellow notepad, 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.

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