We just read an interesting article called ‘Your Friends Want You to Fail’. You can read the article at http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=369997. How many people find that is the case when they start wanting wealth or success that their friends want them to fail or kill their dreams?
The article basically says that when your friends become successful you start to feel pressure to succeed yourself and that when you start to desire success that you have to now leave behind those friends that you had in the past and get a new group of friends who aren’t threatened by the fact that you want to be successful…And this new group would be friends who have already achieved the success you want…This is basically the Law of Attraction in motion, because as you start to associate with different people you now start to view yourself as successful, and therefore that is what you become.
One thing the article didn’t mention is that a lot of people have a very hard time leaving those old friends behind – They feel guilty as if they are doing something bad for wanting success. They feel guilty for wanting more for themselves. How do you now overcome such guilt of leaving old friends behind when they no longer represent your picture of success?…
First, you realize that just because you now want success doesn’t mean you cannot still be friends with this person – you realize that the friendship will just change a bit. Then you stop feeling guilty for wanting a better life. The universe is abundant and God/Universe wants for you the same things that you want for yourself…So there is really nothing to feel guilty about, and hey! As you start to do better, maybe your friends will feel pressure to keep up.
November 19th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
The following comment accidentally got deleted with a list of spam today. My apologies – here’s your comment!
From S. Godfrey at http://www.WebSponsorZone.Net
“With many people, you really do have to jettison them. Also, you must start a concious filtering of new aquaintances.
There are plenty of people who make a total focus of convincing you to give up on any long-term, work-based goals. They will try to infect you with their negativity. They will tell you to grow up, and face the alleged “reality” that it is “impossible” to ever improve one’s life through effort and self-discipline.
And, if you are succeeding at anything, they will tell that it isn’t worth the effort. Or, that, you are a bad person, and everyone hates you, and that cancels out the success. They will never stop telling those lies.
They don’t just want you to fail. They want you to stop trying at all.
The only viable “change” in such relationships, is to completely walk away from the toxic people. And to always evaluate new aquaintances for signs of toxicity.”
So true! Often, people will just sort of fade awayif you no longer resonate with them. This topic seems to be coming up a lot lately, perhaps because more and more people are branching out and moving towards being their true selves, as we evolve as a species.
Thanks for visiting and for your valued input!
~ Shauna