Environment

 

The law of Environment

"Growth Thrives in conducive surroundings"

Our environment has a lot to do with our growth and advancement. Your environment can either make or mar you. You can change your environment if you are not seeing desired results in your current.

The choice(s) you make is what actually determine the level of your growth. John C Maxwell said and I quote " If you are always at the head of the class, then you are in the wrong class"

So what is Maxwell trying to say here? It's not bad if you are always top of your class but it does not give you room to be more, cause you feel you are already the head 🗣️

Being in a highly competitive environment,  where there are so many person's ahead of you, give you a room to improve and become better. You get to learn from people who are ahead of you- it gives you a sense of becoming more and exploring higher opportunities. In essence, be grateful but don't be too comfortable where you are when you can be more!

Here 👇🏽are six points that can help us make good choice(s).

1️⃣ Access your current environment

Ability to access your environment is a key to make a choice either to thrive and make out the best of your environment or to make a transition to another. The environment in question here connote not only our physical environment (surroundings) but also our professional environment-Career environment (you can change your course) Education (you can switch to a better and suitable discipline) and so on..

There are some keys questions that can help us analyze properly our environment.

❕What Experience rejuvenate us ?

❕What people encourage us ?

❕What activities revive us ?

❕What spiritual exercise strengthen us ?

❕What dreams inspire us ?

❕What family members care for us ?

❕What blessings activate us ?

❕What recollections put smile on our faces ?

❕What have you read that changed you ?

2️⃣ Change yourself and your environment

Why changing your environment, you must also aligh yourself to changing yourself to fit into the environment you are transiting to cause if you don't here is what happens👇🏽

👌 If you change yourself and not your environment , growth will be slow and yet difficult.

👌 If you change your environment and not yourself , growth will be slow and less difficult.

👌 If you change yourself and change your environment, growth will be faster and more successful.

So a combination of both bring the success you desire.

3️⃣ Change who you spend your time with

We should always try to spend time with people who challenge us to do more. For instance, personally I love to spend my time with persons who actually challenge to be better even without uttering a word.  John C Maxwell in his popular quote said and I quote " we become the average of the five people we hang around the most "

So evaluate yourself and know the circle of people you hang around. If you want Excellence, hang around excellent personalities. If you want  mediocre, hang around mediocres.

The choice is yours.

4️⃣ Challenge yourself in your new environment

You must note that it is not enough to shift to a new environment. You must learn to challenge yourself while you make that transition. A paradigm of self challenge. Denial yourself of anything that will limit you.

A better environment will not help you if you don't harness the opportunities there. For instance, a human trying to empty and ocean with a spoon 🌊  what do you get ? Little or nothing will be achieved even if you do that consistently 100 years.

5️⃣ Focus in the moment

Majority of us are so desperate over the future and forget to do the little we can today. Forget about the future , it will take care of itself. Do the little you can today and harness ALL favourable opportunities to be sure you are fully getting the benefits of the moment.

6️⃣ Move forward despite criticism

Criticism will come definitely as you grow 🪴 but is that a reason to quit ? Hell No! Instead do more and be more focus as long as you are doing what's right. Be on track and focus on that prize 🏆 because no matter how good you are , someone's out there to criticize you. Make a habit of your focus and goal more important and criticism less attention. If JESUS CHRIST could be criticized even when he did nothing wrong- He was on assignment to  help the human race by saving us from calamity but was still killed so tell me, though mission accomplished. So expect criticism but don't give attention to it. Focus on your goal friend 🤝

As Ralph waldo Emerson wrote and i quote

" Whatever course you decide upon , there's always someone to tell you, you are wrong "
They are wrong though , not you. One word - Focus.

How do we apply the law of Environment ?

Here the way 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

🏳️ Others are ahead of me ?

🏳️ Am i continually challenged ?

🏳️ Is my focus  challenged ?

🏳️ Is the atmosphere  affirming ?

🏳️ Am i often out of my comfort zone ?

🚩 Do i wake up excited ?

🚩  Is Failure my enemy ?

🏳️ Am i growing ?

🚩 People desire change

🏳️ Is my Growth  modelled and expected ?

If you answer is as NO to majority of the questions then you need to consider changing your environment.

Access your personal growth needs by the thrio as postulated by John v Maxwell. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

💡The right soil to grow in - what nourishes you (Growth)

💡  The right air to breath in - What keeps you alive( Purpose)

💡 The right climate to live in - What sustains you ( People , friendship )

Significant growth will not happen in your life 🧬 if you are not continually challenged.  In essence, set specific goals that are beyond your current capacity and work towards them.

Hope you learnt something from today's session.  Be more intentional about your growth.