Your Environment, Is It Stronger Than Your Willpower?

Take a look at your environment.

How is your environment serving you? We should always be looking for ways to improve and grow, to learn and excel.  Does your environment promote that growth or does it get into the way?

If you decide that you no longer want to drink alcohol and you remove all of it from you immediate environment and then you go with someone to dinner or something of that nature and they order a drink.  Is your willpower going to be stronger than your environment?  If alcohol was an actual problem then I would say that your environment will at that point be stronger than your willpower.

Let's say you have a Hamster in a cage, you notice that it is dirty so you take the hamster out of the cage and clean it up.  You then put it back into the same cage and the next time you look at it, it's dirty again.  So if you continue to put your self in the same situation again and again you will find that you will end up in the same place again and again.

What if you were to take the hamster out of the cage and put them in a new and clean cage?  The hamster would stay clean.

So let's get right down to the point, we aren't talking about a dirty cage and a hamster.  We are talking about whom you surround yourself with.  If the people in your environment do not serve you, if they are able to convince you to do something that you would prefer not to do, then they have taken your willpower from you and you have let them do that.

It is time to take responsibility and  remove your self from the environment that is not healthy or at the very least clean up the environment that you already have.

It isn't easy to change the "status quo" because people want you to stay the same, that is the way they know you.  In order to change you sometimes need to remove your self for a time or forever from the situation.  Make a clean start and draw a line in the sand.  It doesn't matter what others think, what matters is what is in your heart, being strong in your resolve and making sure you don't get off course in your life.  

You are the only one that can make that happen.

It is a choice to be made, when you make the change, change will happen

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The Good, The Bad and How It Can Get Ugly

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about

a battle that goes on inside people. He said, 'My son, the
battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all. One is Evil.
It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance,
self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride,
superiority, and ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace,
love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence,
empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.' The
grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his
grandfather: 'Which wolf wins?'

The old Cherokee simply replied,

'The one you feed.'

I heard this and I thought to myself, Wow, is that the truth or what?

How many people do you know that feed the negative, anger and resentment?

Select the people that you associate yourself with very carefully because a portion of what they are will eventually rub off on you.

Our hearts know how we feel, we call it our "gut" feelings but it is actually your heart's electrodes responding to what you are physically doing and mentally thinking.
When we do good, we feel good and likewise when we do something not so good we feel bad (at least you should).

In order for something to grow you need to feed it. So make a choice to choke out the anger, resentment, disappointment, hatred, jealousy, envy, sorrow, judgemental, negative, arrogant, greed.

It needs to be a choice and eventually it will be a way of life because the choice will be to feed the positive things in life. The things in life that we look back on with fondness, that bring a smile to our face. Those are the things that need to be fed.

Share happiness, love, compassion, benevolence, generosity, faith, hope, kindness, empathy, serenity, and friendship.

They are so much more fun to share. There is nothing better than a big smile or better yet laughter that comes from the heart.

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