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Who I Keep In My Life

Name: Who I Keep In My Life
Uploaded: 2025-11-14T16:00:26+00:00
Duration: 33 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this brief dialogue, Speaker B outlines a pragmatic, "cutthroat" framework for deciding which people to keep in one's life. The core criterion is…

14 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, Speaker B outlines a pragmatic, "cutthroat" framework for deciding which people to keep in one's life. The core criterion is whether a person increases the likelihood of achieving one's goals. This assessment is not limited to financial or business contributions; personal relationships, such as a spouse who provides emotional support and enables enjoyment of life, also count because happiness influences motivation and persistence toward goals. Conversely, relationships that diminish life satisfaction can lower the probability of goal attainment, making them candidates for removal from one's inner circle.

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Do you have like a super cutthroat framework of like people and surroundings?
I mean, I think the simplest cutthroat, you know, razor is just does this person increase the likelihood I achieve my goals? Having you in my life, do I increase or decrease the likelihood I achieve my goals? Also, to be clear, I don't think that every single person in your life has to be somebody who's going to like make you more money. I do think that a wife who stays at home or a husband who stays at home can increase the likelihood that you hit your goals because you Enjoy your life. If you hate your life, you don't want to keep doing what you're doing, so you stop doing it to decrease the likelihood to hit your goals. So it doesn't have to be business related in order to increase the likelihood.