Law of Attraction

“The only thing that will change your life, change your business, change your relationship, is that you must raise your standards,” Tony says.

Get rid of negative people who bring you down. Surround yourself with people who lift you up, lend you knowledge and help you learn from your mistakes. Raise your standards for your inner circle.

This is the law of attraction which goes back into the 6th century. “If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room,” from Confucius. In order to achieve your dreams, you need to surround yourself with people who are better than you. This philosophy has lasted for a long time and it has been proven that it’s true.

I like this quote because it consistently reminds me to let go of any negative thoughts and feelings. In order to surround yourself with better people, it is to let go of people who bring you down. This is real experience to me as well. Back in middle, I hung out with friends that got in trouble and acted cool. Well, I turned into one of them. I got in trouble a lot, teachers disliked me, and more. It caused a lot of conflict between my teachers and parents as well. One day, my mom went to a conference with my teacher about my behaviour. My teacher explained how my attitude was always negative. I was starting to follow the friends that I always hung out with. My teacher first told me to hang out with friends that were more like me. Friends who were positive, smiling, studying, and respectful to teachers. So, the next day, I left behind the, “cool friends,” and went to Korean friends who were good students. After a week of spending time with them, my teacher pulled me aside. She explained how she noticed a big change in me. I was surprised because I had totally forgot about the conversation that we had. For the rest of year, I was a respectful and a diligent student who learned a valuable lesson in life.

That quote also related to, “surround yourself with people outside your comfort zone.” This summer, I have also experienced this. I met a new set of golfing friends in a new course. Each one of them were better than me in every single way. It was tough in the beginning to be interacting and playing with them. However, I realized how much it benefitted me. I learned about the different ways to play from my friends. In tournaments, I had a much better score than practicing alone or with players who were worse than me. It is something that my dad always taught me.

He always says how, “to become better at something, you need to learn and in order to learn, you need to be with people who are better than you.”