When we think about our environment, we often just think about the neighborhood that we live in or the school or place where we work, but our environment is crucial to our success in life and it encompasses many other areas other than the physical spaces. Here I will talk about how making the changes in our environment, can change our life for the better.

The Environment of our Mind

Our mind space is hands down the most important environment that we are engaged with the most and what has the biggest impact on everything we do. How we think is what leads us up and down the many different roads in our lives and we must be able to keep our mind in the best place possible — always.

Due to the fact that the mind space is the most vital, it is also the most difficult to change. Changing this can be, and usually is, the one thing that takes several years or more to actually change. But it needs to be changed and to change over and over again, for some things. Such as the next area — relationships.

Start with talking to your self in a positive way. Telling yourself how much you believe in yourself and reinforcing positive thinking can make a huge different in life. Everything will always work out. You just need to have a positive mindset and you will see it.

Relationship Environment

Relationships are something that we all must have and not all of us are good at keeping them. To change our relationships at times is very difficult but necessary. Relationships can take up a lot of real estate in our environment. Other people influence us in good and bad ways and it is important to understand and see which relationships are hurting our progress in life and holding us back versus the relationships that are good for our growth.

It’s difficult to make a change in our relationship environment because we are usually very emotionally connected and have invested time and energy into that relationship, but a change in a relationship that is impacting you negatively can be the one thing that you need to change the most to make an incredible change in your life for the better.

Look at your circle of friends and family and see what changes you can make. While our family is our family, we can make a choice to not spend as much time with someone and that can be enough to help you make a positive change in your life. Check your relationship inventory and expiration dates.

Physical Environment

Our physical environment can often be looked upon as a relationship as well. We live and grow in a place and that place can give us so much in our lives. It can also contribute to a lot of negativity if there are elements around you that influence your decisions and hold you back from reaching a place that can make you happier and more successful.

A simple change can be to just move to another neighborhood or around the block that is a new space. Sometimes it’s not even the neighborhood or city, but it’s the way that you keep your space. If you are into hoarding or not keeping your space clean, it can also be something that holds in a negativity. Sometimes we need to just make a fresh start somewhere and be in a new space physically. You’d be surprised at how a small move to change your physical environment can have a dramatic effect on your well-being. Start with simply rearranging your furniture and see how it feels.

Job — Work — Career

Being in a job that you do not like or that is psychologically draining you, is the worst. At times we work a job that we do not really want because we need the money. Bills need to get paid. Food needs to be on the table. Some of those jobs can actually turn into jobs that we do for much longer than we had originally anticipated.

There has to be a time where we sit ourselves down and ask if this is what we want to continue to do. Are we happy doing this job every day of our life? Often times, if we are asking ourselves these questions, we already know the answers. This is when we need to think about how we can make a move to get into a better place to earn the money we need to earn. This is an extremely difficult thing to do but we need to change the environment of our workplace.

One option for a change of your job or even career is to sit down with a piece of paper and think about the things that make you happy and how you can make a living from doing one or more of those things on the list. It may be easier than it seems from the onset, such as, you may be able to start a small online business just by monetizing your hobby. For example, if you like to paint or draw, start selling your art work. Even if you sell 1 piece of art a year, it’s a start and you’d be surprised to see how quickly you’re selling 10 or more a year and that already puts you into a better place than you were before. New insights and ideas will spring up by just starting it.

Start with an idea — Set a course — Off you go!

Look at the environment that you have and start looking at how you can make changes in it. Get an idea of what you want from life and make a plan to get there. Once you start activating that plan so many positive changes will happen. It will take time and more importantly, it will take a consistent effort on your part. You may need to break away from people that could be holding you back. You may need to change neighborhoods. You may need to start working elsewhere. So much can come from getting after the things that you want most in life.

Changes are the most difficult thing for us to do, but with positive changes, everything you do will be the most rewarding achievement that you will make in your life.

Change your environment and change your life.

KOMK