In my last blog post, I mentioned how winning is closer than you think and starts from you believing in it. What makes you far from believing that is often the environment around you. The environment you are surrounding yourself with is undervalued.
Motivational speaker Jim Rohn famously said that “we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with”. You may argue that this is not 100 percent true, but the idea this statement tries to present makes complete sense. If your friends you hang out with like to have dinner after 10 PM, you most likely are used to having it at that time, or at least do not consider this a strange time to have dinner.
Coca-Cola makes 45 percent of its sales end of isles in supermarkets where it is a visible and pretty busy place to walk by shoppers. 48.1 percent of entrepreneurs have grown up in families with businesses. Yet, I would assume that a significant portion of the other 52 percent has had close relationships with business people not in their families.
Minor changes to the environment you are interacting with make massive changes.
Start looking at other successes with a curious eye; find detailed stories that will answer your questions and make you ask the right questions that you might have never thought.
A straightforward method that I have missed most of my life though it has existed for thousands of years, is reading books. The wisdom you will find in books is incomparable. You can almost find books about anything; you may be surprised that many people in your environment do not even know there are books for the important stuff in your life. When I later started reading at a late age, I now regret not starting a reading habit since I started learning how to read.
JG
Sometimes I hear people say that they regret – that they didn’t do something, or they did it, or they didn’t choose something, or that they chose something. And if they had made a different choice, their lives would have been different (read better? Happier?). I can hear it from you too. If you had read a hundred times as many books, where would you be today and what would be different in your life? Would you be a different person?
Contrary to you, I have read since I learned to read. And I would probably read more if I had access to books at that time, or had a guide at that time to tell me what to read. But I didn’t. Neither one nor the other. Would I be anybody other than what I am today? I do not know. Would I like to be someone other than I am – I know not. Because it was my way, sometimes easy and sometimes difficult. Just like in everyone’s life. Sometimes my choices served me and sometimes it hurt. Do I regret it? Not today.
What is important to me I discovered after many years and as a result of lessons, failures, months of sadness, regrets, despairing sometimes over a ” broken jug” that it will never be the way I wanted it.
If I think about my life, would I do something different? Yes. I would be more happy about small things, I would be less worried about something that I have no influence on, and I would focus more on what I have real influence on. But I still think my life would be neither better nor worse.
I have no advice or a recipe for living a wise life. I am still alive and I think that I can wish you and everyone one thing – good people around who will give you a hand or push you forward if you need to. Nowdays if I doubt I have a thinking – and one day, the last day I want to say to myself – I lived with passion my life.
I wish you you and myself it
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