In the pursuit of greatness, our environment is everything.
Your environment is either holding you back or propelling you toward your goals.
There’s really no in between.
As humans, we are wired to fall back into habits and can become creatures of our environment.
Simple example: if your living room has a large comfy couch, a big flat screen TV, and a bowl of candy on the coffee table, guess what you’re going to do after a long day of work?
It’s pretty simple.
Here’s how to build an environment that makes it impossible for you to lose.
Identify your goals.
You can’t know what you’re aiming for if you don’t have your goals written down.
What do you want to accomplish?
If you’re a husband and dad, best to start with these categories: spiritual, physical, career, and financial.
Determine if your current environment is helping or hurting you.
Do an analysis.
If you’re goal is to eat 180 grams of protein per day, lift heavy 3x a week, and eat healthier, does your environment reflect that?
This also means evaluating your life circumstances and routines. Not just your environment.
For example, the above goal has been my exact goal all year.
I was failing miserably at it until a few weeks ago.
Why?
Because we have two kids… a 2-year-old and a 7-month-old who doesn’t sleep through the night.
It’s not easy to get away for a workout. So I shot to go in the mornings. Guess what? That rarely happened because the amount of sleep we get is unpredictable.
I had two options: Change my goal or change my environment.
I decided my goal was important and worth achieving. So I changed my environment, and we invested in a home gym in the garage.
Guess what?
I’m lifting more than 3x a week now AND spending more time with my family because we’ll work out together.
That’s a win-win.
Make the changes in your environment that you need to make
No excuses. Either make the changes, regardless of the cost, or accept that the goal isn’t that important to you and change the goal.
There’s no in-between.
It’s easy to convince ourselves to accept things as they are or make excuses for why we aren’t accomplishing a goal.
Neither of those behaviors is helpful.
Make it happen.
Either the goal is important to you or it’s not.
Either you’re serious or you’re not.
And if you’re not, admit it, and spend your time and energy on a new goal.
Get after it.
Mitch