BE IN A DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT
One very important aspect of
studying the behavior of living things is to understand their environment. The
environment undoubtedly shapes the kind of life those in it live and is also
shaped by it. Communities living in Coastal areas are likely to be good
swimmers whose staple diet is fish while those in land –locked countries may
thrive on agriculture or hunting. Meanwhile ,those who live in very cold snowy
countries will build houses that are very different from their relatives in
warmer climes.
When you decide to become
successful and to achieve your goals, what sort of environment do you think is
conducive to the achievement of your aspirations? Being around good-for-nothing
friends with nowhere to go with their lives is not going to be helpful! Neither
is hanging on to self-destructive habits which are expensive and which are
detrimental to your health .In short you will need to deliberately create an
environment which not only encourages you to reach out for your intended goals
but inspires you to constantly focus on the job at hand-both the short –term
plans and the long term ones. Similarly ,you have to identify all distractions
and deal with them accordingly .These could be people, wrong habits and
situations which remove you from resolutely working on what you should.
Fulfilling tasks and ambitions is
not an easy stroll in the park. There are hard decisions which have to be made
like changing your environment, changing your friends or who you `hang out
with`, changing your neighborhood, stopping certain things and abstaining from
others. This is not an invitation to be mean to the people you know ,but it may
be necessary to very politely remove yourself from situations which may bury
your dreams. It is unfortunate that there are certain commitments which may
cause you to be so different from those around you that this may spell the end
of some relationships. I am reminded of some couples who have broken up after
one of them started losing unhealthy weight, eating responsibly, exercising and
having a fit body of their dreams. Rather than face an early grave ,it is far
better that that relationship deals with the positive change than continue in
the same toxic disfunctionality.
So, change your environment and
let it help you when you decide to change.
By EDWARD NGUNDU
edwardngundu@yahoo.com
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