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The Importance of Your Environment
To be successful, you need both the right skills and leverages to propel yourself to success. One of the leverages required is a ‘Mentor’.
And a mentor need not be a person. It can be an accident, an event, an experience, a book, a TV programme, etc. It can be anything that lets you learn a lesson.
Your environment can be a great mentor too. Research has shown that your environment can create a significant psychological impact on your moods, attitude, behaviour, and it has a great deal of influence over you.
Now imagine if you were in an environment where mistakes were not tolerated and creativity was suppressed, do you think there’s any chance you can grow as a person? Very unlikely.
To achieve success, we need a lot of positive energy to move us forward. Negative energy will only hold us back.
So, if you were to immerse yourself in an environment where there’s tremendous flow of positive energy, it’ll take you less time and energy to generate the same amount of work.
And human beings are creatures of emotions. Whenever our positive emotions are evoked, we tend to engage in positive actions, which will translate into positive results. However, the opposite is true as well.
Hence, it is imperative that you are constantly working in a positive environment so that you will only do what’s positive and get what’s positive.
Find Your Nurturing Environment
Although everyone should put himself or herself in a positive environment, different people require different environment so as to be nurtured correctly.
Your nurturing environment should be one that supports the development of your talent and/or expertise.
For example, a real estate agent should build his/her strengths being out there networking, negotiating, closing sales, etc. To a real estate agent, the office is not a nurturing environment.
One of the reasons why most people are not developing their potential to the fullest is because they are not working in a nurturing environment.
And the sad truth is, they choose to work in that environment. Why? Because it takes a lot of hard work to develop one’s talent and polish one’s expertise and they simply prefer to remain in their comfort zone.
They work because they need to pay their bills. They work because they want to buy the latest designer bag. They work because they want their parents to stop nagging. But they never work to develop themselves.
Besides your work environment, you should also seek out other environments that will help in nurturing your talents. That can be as simple as spending a quiet Sunday afternoon at home reading a good book.
One very nurturing environment I find is seminars. I like attending seminars not only because they provide very good education, but also because it is where there’s a lot of positive energy as every participant is there to learn, network, and have fun.
If you want to become successful, it is important that you continually seek out environments to develop your talents and/or expertise to grow yourself to become a better, wiser and richer person.
Find Your Inspiring Environment
Every one of us needs inspiration and motivation to keep our spirits up while we strive toward our goals. Therefore, it is enormously constructive to turn our workplace and our home into a hugely motivational and inspirational environments as they are where we spend the most of our time.
A practical way to do this is to decorate your office and home with all your academic and non-academic certificates, awards, tokens of appreciation from your employers or clients, pictures, and any other things that remind you of your past successes.
Doing this will not only motivate you, it will also programme your subconscious mind to see yourself as a winner, boosting your self-esteem as a result.
And not forgetting that you should put up your goals – those that you’ve written down on papers and ictures of your dream house and/or car, etc – on anywhere that’s prominent like the walls in your room, your desk, your computer, etc.
Being reminded of your goals visually will serve as a powerful stimulus to spur you on to keep taking actions to work toward your goals when you’re losing your discipline and not feel like working anymore.
Another thing you may want to consider displaying is the pictures or posters of your heroes. It could be your sports heroes, your bosses (though not very likely), famous people who are highly successful, and so on.
We all love success stories because they’re always incredibly inspiring. Your heroes will serve to be the symbols of these success stories. Pinning up these success symbols will help you to visualise yourself as a member of their league.
Also, if you want to be more successful, you have to hang out with more successful people. This is onte of the ways to hang out with immensely successful people, most of whom you may never have a chance to meet in real life.
In Summary
Mediocre and average people are people who tend not to pursue their personal growth. They want easy environments because they want an easy life.
Given a choice, they would rather knock off right the dot to hang out with their mates at a pub enjoying a few booze than stick around in the office working toward their goals.
They would rather slouch in their couch watching TV after dinner than read a book to learn new knowledge and widen their horizon.
These people fail to realise that if they do what is easy, life will be hard. But if they do what is hard, life will be easy.
It takes some degree of mental and physical toughness to achieve success. Putting yourself in a different, albeit more success-conducive environment, requires some getting used to. But once you get used to the new environment, you’d have greatly enhanced your chance of scaling new heights and living out your dreams.
Cheers~
P.S. What other suggestions do you have to create the kind of environment which will help to propel you to greater success? Please share them in the comment section.
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