Overcoming your environment!

Your neighborhood, background, upbringing, circumstances, conditions, friends and family are all a part of your environment. EVERYTHING that goes on in your life from day to day plays a part in who you are! Lets use a chained up dog who has never been released from that chain for example. That chain is all he's known for his whole life. One day someone comes along and releases the dog and sets him free. What do you believe that dog will do? More than likely he will stay in that same place he's been his whole life because he does not know anything else. Its the same with us! One of the definitions for environment is: surrounding influences: all the external factors influencing the life and activities of people. We grew up one way, all of us in some type of bondage created through our environment. Whether it be lack of love, abuse(physical or emotional), low self-esteem, built up anger, fear of success....i could go on forever. We all have things we deal with but the choice is ours if we want to stay in that unhappiness from our bondage. We have a choice to continue to allow our bad environments to bring us down and shape us into someone we never wanted to be, or simply change our environment. To continue to do the same thing and expect a different result is simply stupid on our part. If something is not working it becomes impossible to change that situation without changing your solution! The first step to change is stepping out of the environment that created what you desire to change. If its anger you wish to change, surround yourself with people that love. If it is fear of success surround yourself with successful people that came from a "you'll never be anything" environment! Whatever you desire to change surround yourself with people who already have become who you desire to be. Take a moment today to take a deep look into your environment! Whatever is not good, whatever is holding you down or stopping you from becoming what you were destine to be, CHANGE IT! I pray everyone has a blessed and purpose filled week!



 “Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.” -W. Clement Stone