Is your environment setting you back or helping you grow?
Anthelme Brillat, a French author, wrote: Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. Similarly, I ask you, "Tell me about your environment, and I will tell you what you will become. Everyone is walking towards a path of becoming, and who we become is determined by the environments we choose to plant ourselves in. So, what is your environment telling you? Is it time to bloom, or is it to cultivate something new?
Whenever we decide to close old chapters and begin new ones, we are also finding ourselves outgrowing a version of ourselves each time we move forward. And the more we move forward in life, the more we have to adapt to new environments that will only help us bloom into a new version of ourselves.
Your environment reflects your values, beliefs, and priorities about what you find most important in your life. Your environment influences how you spend your day, the friendships you establish, and the jobs and opportunities you seek. By taking inventory of where we are and the environments we surround ourselves with, we will be better able to identify if our environments are helping us grow or are hindering us.
What direction do you want your life to go, and is your environment helping you get there? Is your environment shrinking or expanding the vision you have for your life? Think about the habits, disciplines, and routines you may have outgrown this season, and what kind of environment does the new you demand? To live a purposeful life, we must learn how to be intentional about cultivating the proper environments that will allow us to prosper in every season. For you to change the direction of your life, it begins first by changing your environment.
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