“Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.”—Orison Swett Marden
Jim Harshaw, Jr. (“Success Through Failure” Podcast) calls it the “environment of excellence.
Jim Rohn tells us that we are “the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
We are a product of our chosen environment. (Note: chosen environment and not simply our environment.) We are dealt the hand we are dealt, but how we play it is entirely up to us. We will play the victim if we allow people to tell us we are the victim. We will play the victor when we elect to surround ourselves with a supportive team—when we choose to pursue success.
If you don’t like where you are in life, you have two choices: complain, succumb, or change. Avoid anyone who will devalue you and underestimate your worth. Find those who see greater value in you than you see in yourself. Seek those who will relentlessly push you—who will modify, shape, and mold you. At the same time, pull others up with you. Successful people reach down as well as up.
“While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.”—Mattie Stepanek
Be your best today; be better tomorrow.
Carpe momento!!