surround yourself with people who'll bring you higher

As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. 

Other people and other people's ideas are often better than your own. 

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, 

spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.

Amy Poehler

A friend of mine is very inspirational and passionate about her life. It's amazing, every time I see her, I get inspired and motivated. We can talk about our dreams, hopes and belief. Not only she inspires me, she was the one who helped me when I moved to the city. I cannot be more grateful for all she's done for me.

We talked about how we need to surround ourselves with people who brings us higher, people who can better us, who are more intelligent and successful than us. Not only for those who are like-minded, but those who will help you become better. People come in and out of our life all the time. In my culture that's a saying, "Every encounter has a meaning and purpose, embrace every moment". Isn't that beautiful?! Sometimes it happens for you to learn, sometimes it happens for somebody to learn from you. But whatever the reasons are, it happens for a reason. It doesn't mean that you have to stick to the relationship till you die. At the end of the day we are still ending our relationship by death. Anyways... we have to be always willing to learn from each other and keep our eyes open for every opportunities to learn. You know when you don't feel like working out, but do it anyway in not full out?! When you do it alone, you might just do it for the sake of doing it, or you might even not finish the work out. How about when you have an accountability partners!? or group of people?! you do it. You are going to do it. You need to surround yourself with people who are going to make you work out with them. You need to surround yourself with people who are going to stop you from eating the last piece of chocolate cake when you are on diet. You need to surround yourself with people who will call you out when you are not doing what you said you are going to do. Get it?! The bottom line is you cannot do it alone and you don't have to. Everybody needs somebody. But those people cannot fill the void for you. What you are missing, you are going to have to fill it yourself. What you want, you are going to have to get it yourself. You are the one who's actually going to do the work. And keep yourself surrounded by people who will life you higher no matter what.

We always think and assume that other people are watching us, judging us, and criticizing us. Right?! The truth is that EVERYBODY IS THINKING THE SAME THING! so, nobody is actually thinking of YOU! so who cares?! You are gonna have to let go of the ego and just be who you are. Be as authentic as possible and keep being motivated, keep learning. I was talking to some talented people the other day and got inspired by how humble they are. Not only they are passionate about what they do, they always want to learn more, improve more and seek for more. And they know that they have to pass it along to the next generations. How beautiful is that?! They are thinking of something bigger than themselves as an individual. They are a part of history, culture and humanity. I want to surround myself with people like that. And hopefully somebody will get inspired by my action, not by my word.

Be with people who will always encourage you, challenge you, and believe in you. And you can be somebody eles's inspiration too...

Love,