The Strength of Peer Groups

Throughout your career and personal life, your peers are the easiest to identify and partner with.

Your peers consist of friends, co-workers, relatives, people in your neighborhood, people in your line of work, and generally anyone with whom you have a rather natural and easy communication channel.

Undoubtedly you already belong to one or more peer groups consisting of two or more people. Take a minute to list at least two different peer groups you belong to
and the members in the peer group. It's possible for someone to be in two different peer
groups. The groups might meet for different reasons at different times with different pursuits.  

At work, you might find that Marianna is one of the people you naturally hang around with, and also happens to have expertise in a certain area that concerns you. Hence, you need to draw upon her knowledge frequently. In that regard, Marianna is part of your informal peer group, and part of your professional peer group. 

Resources Abound

Depending on what goals you're pursuing, you might have a fabulous array of resources in your life right now among members of your peer group. You might not, however, previously have drawn upon these precious human resources. 

Ask yourself what are you facing right now that members of your peer groups might be facing as well? Ask yourself who can help you by virtue of the fact that he or she has already been down that path?