How to surround yourself with people better than yourself

Have you ever noticed, successful people surround themselves with people who know more, do more, have more than they do. Not that they are trying to take these people for what they got, but in my opinion it's to help them to become better people as well. Think about it. If you surrounded yourself with mediocre people all day who slacked, who were lazy, who only did just enough to get by even if you are a very disciplined person you too will start to take on their behaviors.


It's like what I was saying about the Circle of Success, you have to surround yourself not just with like-minded people but people who are better than yourself. But how do you know which friends, associates, and contacts you should surround yourself to make you a better person? Of course you have your family who is there to support you and your decisions even if they don't understand them fully. And you have your friends to hold up that mirror when you forget to look at it by yourself. Absolutely you have your closest associates to bounce ideas off of. But there are still more people and better ways to finding those people with whom will make you better.


Check out this article about How to Surround Yourself with People Better Than You.

Motivational Monday: Think Different...Like Steve Jobs

As most of you all know, one of the world's leaders in innovation and technology died last week. Steve Jobs was a pioneer in the "Think Different" mentality. It is because of him that technology has excelled the way it did. He single-handedly forced other companies to think differently about their products, whether it was out of necessity or competition, products became better because of what Steve Jobs created through Apple, Inc. But now that he is gone, what can we take away from his legacy? Sure we can admire the innovations from the first Mac to the upcoming iPhone series, but what else has Steve Jobs given us?

In my opinion, he has taken the scary out of thinking different. Society, especially the American society, makes it scary to be or think different. We like categories and similarly grouped items. When we are unable to place something in a box...we shun it. Thankfully Mr. Jobs made it "normal" to think and be different. He made it so that being different and being an innovator was the ONLY way to prevent us from living in the dark ages.


I think we should constantly think different. We should constantly push the envelope of what is considered normal. We should go into any task we do questions multiple processes in achieving success.


So Motivational Monday is dedicated to the innovative legacy of Steve Jobs, the Father of "Thinking Different"

Everyone wants to be spider man

See...I've ALWAYS had this thought ever since freshmen year of college when I lived on the 5th floor...I'm afraid of heights and the worry of a fire or something else disastrous prevents me from wanting to be on any floor above 5...whether I live there, work there or visit. But this...this is pretty innovative and of course this video comes from TED!


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Inventing a new way to escape tall buildings from TED Blog on Vimeo.