Are we judged by the company we keep? Probably yes.
You've heard the saying "Birds of a feather flock together." If you want to move up in the world socially and rub shoulders with people who have more future client potential, the logical way to make this happen is to elevate your social circle.
At the start of my career as a financial advisor, I was good friends with another advisor, also at the start of his career. He got engaged.
While we were driving around one day, his fiancee made the following observation, "He used to hang with those guys on the street corner. If we had not gotten together, it's likely that, 20 years later, he would still be hanging with those same guys."
I picked up the expression in the title from a post on LinkedIn. It's so simple, but it makes sense: There's a path to higher ground.
An editor I knew made the observation that, if you belonged to the same organization or attended the same charitable events as other people, this prequalified you to be considered a member of the same social circle.
If you want to elevate your social circle, how do you make this happen? It's actually pretty easy, but it's going to cost you money.
For eight ideas, see the gallery accompanying this article.
How It Works
What's the expected result of this strategy? First of all, trying this strategy will cost you money. That's an immediate result.
You'll be spending money doing things you would be doing anyway; however, you'll be spending more.
You'll spend time in the company of people spending the same amount of money (or more).
You'll get to know them. They'll get comfortable with you. You'll discover the crossover effect.
The people you met one place will turn up in other places on your circuit. You'll learn what "it's a small world" means. These folks will become your new social circle.
You'll still keep your old friends, but, by elevating your social circle, you'll elevate your life — at both professionally and personally.
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