User:Conservative/Essay: My experiment 1

Previously, I wrote the essay Cut toxic people out of your life and replace them with edifying achievers who inspire you.

Develop list of negative/neutral/positive people in my life that I spend a significant amount of time with. Limit the amount time spent with negative people and neutral people. Increase the time to positive/achieving/godly people. Video on this topic is at: Show Me Your Friends and I Will Show You Your Future

• - Goal, action commitments, and weekly reporting study - People with written goals, action commitments and weekly progress reports to a friend saw a 80.95% improvement over control group which had no written goals, no action commitments and no weekly progress reports

Conclusions:

1. The positive effect of accountability was supported: those who sent weekly progress reports to their friend accomplished significantly more than those who had unwritten goals, wrote their goals, formulated action commitments or sent those action commitments to a friend.

2. There was support for the role of public commitment: those who sent their commitments to a friend accomplished significantly more than those who wrote action commitments or did not write their goals.

3. The positive effect of written goals was supported: Those who wrote their goals accomplished significantly more than those who did not write their goals.

Metrics:

- Spiritual: Bible reading, prayer and church attendance habits

- Physical: BMI, resting heart rate, blood pressure, diet, etc.

- Financial/career: Income, extra sources of income, etc.

- Intellectual goals: Ability to memorize, skills learned, book reading, etc.

- Social goals: Expansion of social network with excellent people

Completion of essay: Finish essay as part of a 1-year to 5-year experiment.

Quotes

“You show me your friends, and I’ll show you your future.” - John Wooden, American basketball coach

"The better you are at surrounding yourself with people of high potential, the greater your chance for success." - John Maxwell, Author

"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington

"The less you respond to negative people, the more powerful your life will become.” – Robert E. Baine, American pastor and businessman

"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington