Declutter Your Mind: Organize Your Mind to Lead a Professional Life of Success by Ward John

Author:Ward, John [Ward, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

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Get Rid of Toxic Friendships

F riends are the people in our social lives that are close to us. People that help us live our lives better by being there for us at all times. They should be people who positively impact your life. Who are your friends? Who do you surround yourself with?

You are who you allow in your life. I hear many people tell me that they let anyone into their lives because you never know when you may need someone. This chapter is here to take away this obligation that society places on us where we make friends with everyone around us. And to bring them close to our lives because we think that there will come an instance in life where we will need their help.

I think this unfair obligation is what has led to the rise of many toxic relationships in society today. Many people are nowadays complaining about toxic people in their lives. And it has now become a trend for everyone to talk about the toxic people they are cutting off from their life. These quotes mostly go up around new years when everyone wants to start the new year clean and with positivity. Talking about how they need positive people around their space.

As you declutter your life you need to list all friends that make no positive impact in your life as clutter. You do not need them to live comfortably so they become clutter, in fact, they hardly add any benefit to your life. And all clutter in your life has to go for you to get your freedom.

There are people in your life who should be kept close. Because both of you benefit from each other's lives and uplift each other. Your friendship helps you grow into your success. Friends are people who you know will be there for you in all your life’s seasons. Through both the positive and negative times.

But if you have strained friendships where you do not help each other grow then you need to let these people go. If you look at your social friend group and do not feel inspired to be better, then that relationship is not helping you.

Some friends make you feel like your life is not enough because you do not have some things. They give you the pressure of trying to fit in with them. Your friendship becomes too much work because you are constantly striving toward pleasing them. And in the process, you end up living your life beyond your means.

A friend is someone who accepts you for who you are initially and helps you to become better. They do not make you feel inadequate by showing you that you are not at the same level they are in life.

I have mentioned in previous chapters that I had friends who constantly found ways to show me that I was inadequate. They constantly made me feel like my growth was slow and my success was never going to come. I became so bitter with myself that I always downplayed all of my success.

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