Are You Mixing With The Wrong People?

Very often, our friends play a very important part in our lives more than our parents (Sad to say..) and we often listen to our friends more than anyone else. Normally, your best friends will always have almost the same characteristics and the same mindset as you.

So how do you develop a positive mindset? By mixing around with the correct company, of course. Being with a group of entrepreneurial friends does help me to develop the entrepreneur mentality and keeps me motivated.

What kind of friends should you avoid or spend less time with? From my experience, I would say the regulars and those working in the government sector are somehow comfortable getting their regular pay, enjoying their staff benefits, paid medical bills and ample bonuses, and you won't get much inspiration or grow with them. Unless you treat them like someone that you wouldn't want to be. I don't despise those working in government sector, but just that I think that they have a kind of a relaxed mentality where they wouldn't even think of stepping out their comfort zone to venture into entrepreneurship.

You might be already counting to the few friends that you have that are already starting out on their own. Don't worry! I am sure you have friends who are insurance agents, real estate agents, land bankers and direct sales people? Talk to them and learn how they motivate themselves. Most of the time, they are the one that have the entrepreneurial mindset for they have done what the usual people don't do.

Besides that, you can also join networking sessions to get to know like-minded friends in Singapore. I will cover networking in my later post.