I love Jack Canfield’s quote, “You’re the average of the 5 people you choose to hang out with the most.”
Go ahead take a mental account of your friends, your acquaintances, business partners, referral partners, and your peers. Sometimes, what you realize is that YOU’RE the one upping the average of everyone else.
Now, that’s all fine and good and strokes the ego nicely. However, it certainly doesn’t help us to grow personally and professionally to always be the one doling out the advice, being in the teacher/mentor role, inspiring and pumping others up. At some point, your own well will run dry.
If you find that you don’t generally turn to your peers, friends and partners for advice and different perspectives or that they aren’t lending any to you of their own accord, the first question to ask yourself is, “Do I really have ALL the answers?” No way!
In order to grow both personally and professionally, we’ve got to be willing to tap into people who we feel possess unique perspectives, are smarter, more creative, and/or more experienced than ourselves. This is the secret to upping our own average and taking our lives to the next level.
So where are the pools we can draw from to fill up our own wells?
- Professionals who lead seminars, workshops, classes, networking and mastermind Groups
- Other Top Producing Originators with similar business models
- Other Sales Professionals in your sphere of influence, like successful Financial Planners, Real Estate Agents, Insurance Agents, etc.
- Motivational Speakers
- Business and/or Life Coaches
It may take swallowing a piece of humble pie to embrace the idea of upping our own average, BUT as the saying goes, “Nobody succeeds alone.”