The Power To Upgrade Your Environments!

"There are two integral environments that shape our lives and who we are. These landscapes play such an important role in our happiness and success. They affect how we feel, what we do, the decisions we make, what we choose to believe in, and how we show up in the world. The amazing fact is that we have the power to shift and cultivate our internal and external environments. The confidence and empowerment that come from learning how to upgrade your environments, is where authentic freedom, joy, success, and personal growth stem from. " 

Have you ever noticed the impact that people you spend the most time with have on how you feel? Or how what you do with your time consistently directly affects your mood? Unfortunately most people never take the time to really pay attention to how their environments impact their lives. Just learning the practice of noticing can put you into a position to create some significant positive changes in your life. And becoming mindful and aware of your environments is the first step!

Your environments can either lift you up, give you energy, inspire you, bring out your best, support you, and help you become the best version of yourself, or they can hold you back, drain your energy, distract you, lead you to unhealthy behaviors and move you away from the things that are important to you, your future, and your goals.

So much of your success in reaching your goals, becoming the person you want to become, and bringing your Empowered Life Vision to life, depends on both your Internal Environment (your thoughts, emotional states, inner diagloge, and relationship with yourself), and your External Environment (the physical spaces you spend time in, who you spend time with, what you're doing with your time, and the overall energy you have around you), and they're both equally important!

Your environments play a critical role in your happiness, progress, and success. They affect how you feel, what you believe, and what you do (or don't do). 

On this journey towards your personal growth and development, you need to stay energized, healthy, focused & mindful, have clarity, build self-confidence, and whatever else it takes to reach your goals and create a purposeful life. In order to do all of this you need to, first of all become aware and mindful of your environments, to take inventory of your environments and check in with yourself to find out what's working for you, and what needs to change. 

This part of the journey can be challenging because it requires you to get dirt honest with yourself about the people, places, things, and behaviors in your life. And ask yourself if they're supporting you and your vision/goals, giving you energy, lifting you up, empowering you, and bringing out the best version of yourself? Or are they draining your energy and bringing negativity into your life in various ways? Also very common, and sometimes harder to spot, are people and behaviors that are just keeping you stuck, not motivating you to move forward, so not exactly positive or negative, just sort of stagnant. This is where coaching can be SO powerful, helping you see the blind spots that are tough to see on your own. That's why this part of the Extraordinary Purpose Program is so pivotal in our work with Young Adults.