"You become the people you spend the most time with. Choose your friends wisely."

I'm not quite sure who said this, it has been said several different times by several different people. But this wisdom holds true either way. We become just like the people that we hang around. Put another way, birds of a feather flock together.

We must consciously choose our friends, we can not just settle for the people that are placed in our path. On a regular basis, we must look at the people in our life and analyze whether they are the kind of people that we would like to become. Human beings are very easily influenced and the more you hang around somebody, chances are you are going to become just like them. We must seek out people that we can learn from and that can challenge us, not people who are going nowhere with their lives. Interestingly enough, the people who aren't going anywhere with their lives are always the ones who want to give you advice on how to live your life.