Are Your Passengers Healthy or Toxic?

OK, here is the analogy:

You are a bus driver in life and you have an empty bus. When you are born, certain people take a seat on your bus immediately when you pop out (mom, dad, family, etc.).

Throughout life, you pick people up on your bus and you drop people off along the way.

People are constantly getting on and off of your bus.

Some are invited, while others are just along for the ride by virtue of your decisions about life and work.

You have people on your bus who are always on your bus, but who may move from the front to the back and then from the back to the front throughout the journey.

You have people you pick up and drop off more than once; people who truly do go out of your life at some point and truly come back into your life at another point.

Some of these passengers are healthy and some are toxic.

So what?

The passengers on your bus play a vital role in your success (or lack there of).

However, without clarity about who you are and where your bus is going, it is difficult to know whether your passengers are there to help you or hurt you.