Peer Pressure vs. Your Choice

• Defining what peer pressure is and realizing it is neither positive nor negative but how you use it makes it positive or negative.
  
• Positive peer pressure occurs when you like yourself by accepting responsibility for choices made then positively displaces that reality to others.
  
• How one views self, often governs how one treats those around one.  This also affects whether you are positive or negative peer pressure on ones around you.
  
• Even though we are different on the outside, all people are very much the same on the inside.  Therefore you are as much anothers peer pressure as they are yours.
  
• Every choice, whether wise and positive or unwise and harmful, becomes a part of you and shapes what others think of you.
  
• Every choice you make becomes a part of the invisible handle on your life called reputation.  By that reputation, other people develop expectations and perceptions of you that in turn shape how they deal with you.
  
• A chain of bad habits such as negative peer pressure behaviors is easy to start but hard to break, easy to get in to but hard to get out of.  When you start a bad habit, it may have unintended outcomes.
  
• You are the key to be a part of positive peer pressure.  The choice is up to you so use the conscience you have and your common sense to think before you choose.
  
• Positive peer pressure choices are those that build up one another both strengthen you in a positive way and foster care, pleasantness and concern for others.
  
• Choices affect others so friends help friends do right and likewise discourage unwise choices.  You can be that friend.
  
• Everyone has a limited amount of time, talent, abilities, money repairable health, and opportunities to make a significant difference.  If you make smart choices, good things happen but unwise choices can make good things disappear.