CHANGE YOUR ENVIRONMENT

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