Surrounding Yourself with the Right People

It may or may not be sad that I get a lot of my initial motivation for this blog from the website "Thought Catalog" but it works. Today I read this article and pulled a few quotes from it:

-Surround yourself with people who know what you deserve and tell you to demand it. Surround yourself with people who will call you on your bullshit 

- Surround yourself with people who make you leap out of your comfort zone

-Surround yourself with these people not because it will feel easy, or comfortable, or even safe. Surround yourself with these people because these are the ones who will electrify you...

My whole life I have wondered why I was never that person who had a big group of friends, or was invited to every birthday party or always had someone to hang out with. Still to this day, I let this get to me, but then I stop and take a look at the people I do have in my life at any given moment. Every single one of them fits in the above description. Without even noticing it until I was an adult, I have always looked to surround myself with people that can push me and that I can push back to become better, stronger, smarter, more loving, more understanding etc. We can all "fill" our lives with people, with things to do, but I'll never stop believing that when it comes to relationships (family, romantic, friends) quality always wins over quantity. 

So choose those people wisely, professionally, personally, athletically. Look around: are they making you work harder? Are you challenging them to rethink something? Do they know your worth and you know theirs? Do they call you on your bullshit in all the right moments and cheer you on when you need it the most? Those are the people worth surrounding yourself with.