A recent question that was dropped to me on a Super High-Performance call was "How much does your environment impact success?" In this episode, I want to do a deep dive because there have been so many changes that I've made to mine that have caused huge shifts in my success and I want you to have those too.
When you’re an entrepreneur or leader in business you need to be aware of the environment you’re keeping yourself in because it’s going to make a huge impact on your levels of success.
There was a low point in my life when I was living on autopilot in an environment that wasn’t supporting me. I was doing things I knew weren’t helping with my success. When an opportunity came to move, I packed up my things and got out of the area I was living in. I needed a clean break. Before I moved I was drinking, taking drugs, and smoking. As soon as I moved I noticed my life started to get easier because I didn’t feel pulled to those negative behaviors.
The distance I’d created between myself and my unhealthy environments meant I felt free. I gave myself space to let go of what I knew wasn’t good for me to do better things with my life.
There are different environments you have in your life that have an impact on you. You can clean up your life by decluttering and once you start to have a cleanup it frees up energy for you to experience new things, people, places, and opportunities. Don’t Fear Change It’s common to want to make a change, but many people struggle with that because they feel they’re going to upset or lose people. Ultimately if people love you they’ll understand and want you to be happy.
If you stay out of alignment and you know your living situation, job or relationship is wrong and it feels off, that’s your signal to make a move.
Before you can do that you need to address your fears and the stories in your head stopping you from taking action.
When I moved I created space to feel like myself again, and clear out some of the clutter. Reducing the number of things I was doing that were destructive gave me the time and space to be able to collect myself and to start to look at different opportunities. When you start to make difficult but powerful decisions in your life, you realize how important they are and see the opportunities you could have missed. Who’s In Your Life? When you’re living or working in an environment and other people don’t align with your values, it can be very problematic.
Differences in values can mean you don’t see eye to eye with people. It’s not that you shouldn’t be around people with different values, but when you find yourself feeling shut down because of that, at some point you have to be able to make a change.
If you’re around people and you don’t feel good, their values are probably different. My Super High Performance Formula, helps you understand values and how they affect attitude. Once you start to get clear about your values and beliefs everything starts to change, because you start to know yourself and have a list of non-negotiables.
I want to be around people I can disagree with, and have healthy discussions with because I want to learn. My friends should be people l feel good around, who lovingly challenge me to support me in my growth, and see the best in me. I want friends that can listen and that also I can listen to, and I can sit down and deep discussions with.
It’s important to reevaluate. When you start on your personal development journey, the hard truth of it is that as you start to grow and align, there’s going to be situations when people get to raise their standards to meet your new standards or they will fall away.
It doesn’t mean that they’re going to fall away forever, but you become less attached. You shouldn’t keep your standard low because of other people.
You become like the people you spend most of your time with – think about how your friends make you feel. When you’re around certain people,