Give me just a minute. I'll show you how to limit the negative people in your life.

You know, my mother used to say, show me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.

It turns out she was right. Maybe that's why I hated that phrase so much as a kid,

because I knew she was right. And the older I get, the more right I realized she was.

You know, the ancient scripture said it long before my mom.

They said, don't be misled. Bad company corrupts good character. You might be a person of good

character, but if you're hanging out with bad characters, you're going to get corrupted over time.

Napoleon Hill spent 25 years writing his seminal work, Think and Grow Rich,

studied the 500 most successful people on Earth and broke it all down to 13 principles.

And one of the principles was the power of the mastermind.

And he stated that one plus one equals 11.

If you get one good character and you hang out with one more, the power of the mastermind

goes to work for you. You limit the negative people in your life and you surround yourself with the

positive.

Top of the morning to you, I'm Brian Bafini.

When you spend enough time around certain people, you start to talk like them, think like them,

normalize what they normalize, accept what they accept, and aim for what they aim for.

Not because you're weak, but because you're human.

If your circle complains, cuts corners, or settles, you slowly shrink without noticing it.

If your circle grows, learns, takes responsibility, and dreams bigger, you expand without forcing it.

That's why choosing friends is less about popularity and more about alignment.

You don't just hang out with your friends. You actually become each other. So let's get a little uncomfortable and break down choosing friends and how to cut some others loose.

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