Hey, it's Dean Graziosi and welcome to the weekly wisdom. Today I want to talk about role models. What kind of role model are you being? What kind of role models do you hang around? Or what kind of role models if you have children are your

children looking up to you know this week something hit me pretty hard in the face

everybody makes their own decisions and I'm surely not teaching you how to be a parent, but I talk about my kids all the time, and when something hits me, I want to share it with you.

I have cocktails, I'll have a glass of wine with dinner or a drink with a friend, but I've made that decision that drinking in front of my children's not something we think is smart.

Maybe one glass of wine. So I'm using this as an example.

This week my friend, my children, happened to be around someone who had a couple drinks

and you think my kids are only seven and nine right now and they're kind of off in the distance

and this person is talking and they're talking freely because they had a couple

cocktails and it just doesn't it's just not a normal experience in my life so I'm listening

and even though the story is clean it's's rated PG, it's the references, it's the innuendos, it's the things they talk about that I realize my children are looking, and I looked over and I saw my nine-year-old daughter staring

and taking it in and I was hoping it didn't affect her, but literally a day later

she brought something up that was completely in line with what they said

and something I wouldn't want for my child, wouldn't want for your children.

So with that said, what kind of role model are you being to the people around you and who do you surround yourself that are affecting you like that conversation affected my daughter?

You see so many times in life we want to be brave. We want to go to the next level of life.

But we don't realize that the people surrounding us are affecting us.

You know, Tony Robbins is great at saying if you look at the sum total of five friends that you spend the most time with, you're somewhere in the middle.

And if you have role models that are telling you you shouldn't be in that relationship,

are this economy with the crazy elections and the way,

are we going to be socialists?

Are we going to be crazy conservatives?

We're going to be somewhere in the middle.

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