If we go to friends for advice, we may not always get what we came for.

Friends have a time and place, as do influential figures in history. There is a reason I make this comparison.

Quite often friends are mirrors of ourselves demonstrating similar beliefs, values and ideas about life. But the problem with friends is they might not always give us what we truly want, correction, need.

Friends can sometimes keep us on the status quo, not challenging the norm of our behaviour, for they too are familiar with our characteristics, even more so in some respect than our own personal awareness.

When we want to challenge the norm, expand, grow, push past boundaries and be even more of who we are, who are we going to model the changes on?

Comfort zones = friend zones.
I love my friends dearly, the value, insight and support into my life they bring is tremendous, but I am awake to the fact they won’t always provide me with the things I require in order to grow.

Sometimes you need to go outside your comfort zone when relating to people because it is there that we can feel most stretched.

Spending time with people who are not necessarily on our wavelength can push us into aspects of our personality we wouldn’t normally assume. At those times we not only learn to appreciate the intrinsic qualities we provide for others, but in return it highlights the diversity of other people and the fact that no-one is right or wrong, we are all simply human beings each muddling through on our own individual journeys.