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day 517: Pick Your Work Friends Carefully

We aren’t always fortunate enough to choose who we work with on our jobs, but we do get to pick our friends. We may be limited by geography, departments or some other reasons but in most cases we still get to choose who our friends are at work. Our friends say a lot about us to others and our friends, whether or not we know it or not, have a huge influence on who are and how we act. I remember working with a person who became a work friend and we all hung out together. He was funny and smart and he had his own sayings about things and before long we all were saying all the same cliches that he said. Some of them were good things and some were bad things. The point is that we chose our friend and before long we all had picked up his habits. For those outside of the clique I am sure now that it looked like Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men. The same can be said about what can happen to us when our friends are not such happy people. We can also get dragged down from the attitudes of others and become associated with these attitudes too. In Proverbs we read; “Don’t befriend angry people or associate with hot-tempered people.” We need to be careful about who we pick as our friends as they become an extension of us and they also become more influential to ourselves than we may know.

Reference: Proverbs 22:24 (New Living Testament)