{"id":921,"date":"2011-04-11T02:40:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T07:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=921"},"modified":"2011-04-11T02:46:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T07:46:25","slug":"your-5-closest-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=921","title":{"rendered":"Your 5 Closest Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have demonstrated that your income is the average of your 5 closest friends.<\/p>\n<p>Hundred-aires hang out with other hundred-aires,<br \/>\nThousand-aires hang out with other thousand-aires,<br \/>\nMillionaires hang out with other Millionaires, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>There are many reasons for this phenomenon and most are obvious, example; some fun things take more money to do than other fun things; and exclusive clubs are just that &#8211; exclusive.<\/p>\n<p>And every so often opportunities present themselves whereby one can rub elbows with those one or two levels above, and listen to the words they use, pay attention to the things they focus on, and most importantly capture the things those people DO &#8211; that you also could DO &#8211; that could move your income up one or two levels.<\/p>\n<p>In the franchise and network marketing industry these events are called conferences or conventions.  On a smaller scale many companies have monthly or weekly trainings or meetings.  And on an even smaller scale smart business people form their own &#8220;mastermind&#8221; groups.  (Per the Napoleon Hill defintion of &#8220;MasterMind&#8221;).  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars and hours at such events.  Today &#8211; Every time I feel &#8220;stuck&#8221; in my business or personal growth I&#8217;ll seek and attend an event because the <em>experience<\/em> of <strong>BEing<\/strong> there will always produce some level of learning that will move me forward.   <em><strong>BEing present <\/strong><\/em>works incredibly powerfully whereas books, CD&#8217;s, and DVD&#8217;s seem to only provide limited insight. <\/p>\n<p>Bottomline; If you&#8217;re not happy with your current income level, consider making new friends at an event near you.<\/p>\n<p>Live With Intention,<br \/>\nDr Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have demonstrated that your income is the average of your 5 closest friends. Hundred-aires hang out with other hundred-aires, Thousand-aires hang out with other thousand-aires, Millionaires hang out with other Millionaires, and so forth. There are many reasons for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=921\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[29,119,32,154,37,27,152,117,118,43,30,125,42,28,36,126,153,31],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-create-your-fate","tag-createyourfate","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-dr-billtoth1","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-postaday2011","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":923,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}