It‘s easy to think of success as a result of plain old hustle, late nights, and some no-nonsense willpower. If we work harder, think more positively, get up earlier, we‘re told, nothing is impossible. But behind the scenes, a silent, invisible force our environment is constantly influencing our thoughts, behaviors, and eventually, our fate.
Whether you are aware of this fact or not, everything we are exposed to provides a subconscious template for our lives. Things we are exposed to directly, such as the people we interact with, to those we merely observe through scrolling screens and the objects (including the configuration of our homes) that are around us.
The Subtle Power of the Invisible Script
Visualize your mind as a fertile garden. Your willpower and purpose are the seed, but your surroundings are the soil, the sunlight and the rain. You can plant the most noble seed of purpose a longing to create a life of growth and meaning but if you put it in dry, polluted ground, it won‘t thrive.
Our environment writes an unwritten script for us. It informs us of the limits, what is suitable and what can be achieved. If you‘re surrounded by negativity, dysfunction and a culture of blaming, your mind makes a natural transition to the defense system. Gradually you perceive the world through that world of limitation.
On the other hand, a success-oriented environment of growth, responsibility, and camaraderie provides a natural acceleration. The more your everyday environment resembles the person you want to become, the less success becomes a difficult scramble uphill against your environment, and the more it becomes the natural path of least resistance.
The Social Circle: Your Emotional and Mental Thermostat
Again, on our deepest level of existence, we are created to be relational beings, born to be overcomers of the idiosyncrasies of our tribe. Sociologists relate this to “social contagion,” the way in which societies and ideas tend to travel rapidly through a network.
If your “inner circle” are people who are working on self-improvement, gratitude and owning their mistakes you will naturally reflect those attributes. You wont have to try and think bigger, their energy in the circle will lift you up when you need it. They will raise your “emotional and intellectual thermostat”.
However, if everyone else in your life is neighbors and co-workers who are lazy, judgmental, and entrenched in victimhood, they will be a drag anchor on your social well-being. Constructing a civic-minded mind-set is bloody hard when you continually surround yourself with anti-voice. Be conscious of who you allow to have a front row seat in your life.
Spatial Psychology: How Your Physical Workspace Shapes Your Focus
Don‘t write off the clutter as a distraction itself. Cognitive psychologists have been aware for decades that the environment we surround ourselves with affects our thinking. An untidy, chaotic room, signals stress to the brain in the form of chronic distraction. It is visual noise, which pulls at your focus and drains mental energy leading to inaction.
Creating a physical state for success doesn‘t involve a luxurious space, it involves the correct space. A clean desk. A spare corner. An area filled with daylight. Just that and your body‘s nervous system changes. When your body is in the correct state, the mind stays in state to learn, create and think on a deeper level. You shift into proactive creation from reactive stress.
Cultivating a Digital Environment that Feeds Your Growth
Today the world we live in is not just physical. Hours each day we ‘live’ in the cyber space. The algorithms used by social media are engineered in such a way that they hit you where it counts-you emotional side. It makes you feel either constantly comparing or insignificant or simply drowned in a lot of ‘noise.’
If you‘re consuming a surfeit of mindless celebrity gossip, lazy numerics, and nonstop negative news cycles then you are depleting your own mental bandwidth. Tell me, how are you going to produce quality content, thrive as a family, or help communities if your mind‘s been constantly snacking on digital junk food?
Apply as strict a puritanical eye to your digital diet as you do to your physical one. Hit ‘unfollow’ on the accounts that make you feel insignificant or worried. Seek out feeds that teach you something, make you smile and help you be a better person. Use your phone as a tool for self-improvement rather than self-destructivenes.
Designing Your Environment for Effortless Success.
If you want to change your life, stop using will power. Will power is finite--it runs out as the day progresses. Use your energies on environmental design instead making bad behaviors impossible and good behaviors frictionless.
To develop mindfulness: Develop a space at home that is completely screen free and that is designated simply as quiet reflection or reading space.
To nurture good family virtues: Create living environments to stimulate communication through direct conversation instead of surrounding your every room with a television screen.
How to develop a growth mindset: Consume books, audios, mentors yes, even virtual mentors that constantly remind you that you are powerful and accountable to the community.
You create your environment. Think about how much more empowering it is to actively select who you walk with, to control the environments you come into, and to screen your information sources. All of this is the foundation for guaranteed success and social prosperity. Stop fighting the world shape it into one that propels you.
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