Surround yourself with people who encourage you and who are successful and you'll strive to be successful, too. It's all about who call our friends. Motivational Youth Speaker and author Gabe Salazar talks about the importance of choosing good friends. Many times teens say they have a lot of friends. But in reality it's not true. Teens need to examine who are their friends really are, and also identify so-called friends who are leading them down a negative track. The fact is most of us only have a short list of true friends.