They say that you are an average of your five closest friends. Well, I hate to say it but most likely your five closest friends are not someone that you should aspire to be. There is an easy solution, disappear. That doesn't mean ghost your close friends and never talk to them again but it does mean that you no longer have time to hang out, party, waste time. I found this an exercise of loyalty, when I did this four out of my five closest friends stopped talking to me completely and I was able to ditch meaningless relationships in my life, no hard feelings. The one friend, he saw what I was doing and where I was going, he wanted in and now we are closer, stronger and more motivated than before.
"Going Ghost" has a couple main objectives. 1) I already went over, you are going to find who your true friends are, the ones that want to see you succeed and work with you compared to the ones that want to "just hang out." 2) It is going to ground you. You will realize that the more you stay in and work, the more money you save, the more time you have, and the more successful you will be. Lastly, 3), ghost mode is going to teach you a lot about yourself. You will come to realize that you enjoy the silence, enjoy listening to your conscience speaking to itself, enjoy getting down to the nitty gritty and coming out on top.
Dropping your previous life essentially on a dime is a difficult thing to do and it may take a couple tries before you are fully committed to doing so. It will change your life, cancel out the doubt that says it may not be worth it, or it is a waste of good relationships. It is not. Take a month to try it out, I am willing to bet that by the end of the first month those 4 out of 5 friends will already be talking about you negatively while you are not around. That should tell you everything you need to know about the type of friends they were in the first place.
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