Your surroundings affect your long-term outcomes and short-term feelings much more than most realize. The people,1 places,2 and situations3 around you can boost or attenuate the good in your life to a shocking extent.
Find people, places, and situations that provide you with opportunities to improve, reasons to improve, and examples of improvement to follow. Avoid people, places, and situations that tune out, diminish, or obstruct your ability to discover and become more than you are and to do better than you do.
Footnotes
- 1. The righteous is a guide to his neighbor,But the way of the wicked leads them astray. (Proverbs 12:26, NASB) ↩
- 2. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? (Psalms 24:3) ↩
- 3. A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished. (Proverbs 22:3) ↩