Could it be possible that we become our environment?
If your will and your passion doesn’t exceed those around you, it’s only a matter of time before the desires and choices of your peers become yours – and chances are good that it has already happened.
Here’s a little exercise you can do to really let this idea sink in. Add up the annual salaries of your five closest friends, divide by five, and see how your salary compares. Do this with health, relationships, happiness, etc.
You’ll find that nine times out of ten you fall right in the middle. This is the power of your environment.
Having higher standards than your peers is an uphill battle. You need to be inspired every day to create and stick with your goals, and make a conscious decision to not allow the negative comments naysayers telling you that your wishes will never materialize.
You know that you want more from life. Surround yourself with people who also want more in life.
Join organizations whose members share your goals and dreams. Make contact with people around your town who will inspire you to never settle.
It all comes down to this: If you become your environment, make sure yours is one worth mirroring.
If you have the courage to control your environment and ensure that it inspires you instead of hold you back, you’re not finished yet. With that courage comes the amazing opportunity of designing your life by choice and not by chance or circumstance.
Take in mind your ideal life. Think about what you would be doing, how you would carry yourself, how you would feel about yourself. Run the images in your mind and imagine that you have already achieved your goals.
If this picture is to become a reality, you have to do more than think your way to change. That’s almost always an impossible task. You are fighting against years of habits and patterns which will not simply go away.
You need to overcome the obstacles of your internal negative self talk and set yourself up for success.
How long will you wait to make it all happen? Make today the day you take the first step.
Always remember, nine times out of ten you become who you spend time with most. Therefore you must examine your relationships, considering whether they are adding to your life or holding you back.
Daisy Says: Be the master of your environment, give yourself the greatest chances of success.
“There are no facts, only interpretations.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)
“Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of ‘world history,’ but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature. There were eternities during which it did not exist. And when it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened.” (Friedrich Nietzsche)