Your values shape your network
<p>However, if you value ‘not offending anyone,” you are less intentional about whom you hang around. You may allow people into your inner circle that don’t share your values nor value you.</p>
<p>This creates problems because friends influence your values. Lazy friends will encourage you to be lazy. Thieves need lookouts. Drug users share needles with fellow users. Go-getters hang around go-getters.</p>
<p>For example, when I told friends I wanted to be a writer, Lisa said, “Don’t quit your day job.” That advice stopped my writing aspirations for a long time.</p>
<p>Frienemies could sabotage your ideas. If they think that would make you better than them, they may give you a bad review, destroy your reputation, or even steal clients.</p>
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