If your the most successful person at the table, you belong at a different table

I am a very strict person on the quote “you are who you hang out with” this can go many ways. For example, if you hang out with 2 alcoholics, you'll become the third. If you hang out with 2 cheaters, you'll become the third, if you hang out with 2 bums… you'll become the third. One of the most difficult things I have seen and found with people and friends around me is how hard it is to let go of friends when we know they are not good for us or stunting or productivity in life. 

Especially if we have had these friends for a long time, however, sometimes you must remind yourself that not everyone was meant to be in your life forever even if you've known them since you were 4 years old. If you have big dreams and want to live a different lifestyle than you are currently living, you must surround yourself with people who think that way and want the same thing and if you don’t you are betraying and setting yourself backwards. 

There have been a few occurrences lately in my personal life where I have been out and mentally taken a step back to realize that I am not meant to be at this table right now. I want big things, and I have a different mindset where I know what I want and what I'm made for. I journal and meditate and manifest and talk to God daily to get these things and I am stunting my growth by sitting at tables that don't feed me but rather really take away my energy and time. Not just that but you need to really understand that you operate at a different level of currency then these people you may hangout around, that don't have a good head on their shoulders or their priorities straight. I thank God every day that I got my priorities straight at a very early age where I realized no one was coming to hand me things in life and now is the time because I need to set myself up to do that. And that's exactly what I did. I set myself up at an early age, but now from here I am at the stage where I need to build. What are you learning from your friends right now? How are these friendships benefiting and feeding your soul and mind and peace of life? You must ask these questions because especially in your 20s most of them don't, we hang out with people that waste their time at the same bar with the same people and don't have high expectations of themselves. This is fine, but the point is, if you do have high expectations of yourself and you're sick of doing that you have to have the courage to break away. That is nothing against your friends and has nothing to do with them, it has all to do with you and if they say something about you not coming around as often and they get upset, you must remember your priorities. Someone who is available all the time and is always at the function isn't busy building the life they want to live. You never want to be the go-to person to do something with, I personally find that as an insult that just means your friends think you're never busy and will always be available to bum around. You want to be busy; you want to have a schedule, you want to have limited access to people, especially people that aren't feeding you well at the table. Sometimes you're at a table that's feeding you coney dogs, but you belong at a table that's serving caviar. You can get there, you just need to get up and move tables, but that's all in your control and no one else's. And the longer you stay at the wrong table the more bullshit you're eating while you're there that will poison your mindset and view on your potential.