Have you ever experienced a time in your life where you’ve tried to change…and was able to make a shift for a few weeks at max, then when you stopped paying attention to it, it would just go back? I think I have figured out why this is something that me and you have in common.

I know you’ve noticed that all of us only have a limited amount of willpower that we possess at any given time, it’d be nice if our will was absolute and we were like Gods but it seems more like we can always change some crap in our lives but often after that will storehouse runs out we’re back at square one…this is how I’ve come to understand getting past that and after using this formula in my life for a bit, seeing profound changes happen with it, I want to share it with you.

Here comes the scientific sounding part…outside influences in our life; friends, family, the communities we hang out in (this one included), what type of info we allow into our brains (reading a self-help book as compared to watching the news on T.V.) where we live and how it’s kept…all of these are natural affirmations in our environment that overrides our best interests some times…it’s like a person who’s trying to stop drinking hanging out in bars all the time, what do you think about him, do you think he’s going to pick up another bottle regardless of his intentions?

If you want to succeed then you’re going to have to create the personal environment that propels you to greatness instead of keeping one by default that almost promises failure while all the time just beating your head against the wall.

It seems like we have this sort of equilibrium when it comes to our personality, our character, which is caused greatly by the places we frequent and the people we communicate with most. If you are to change the environment around you with your will instead of the action directly you will automatically get the habit you want. If you wish to stop negative thinking all together, surround yourself with positive people, figure out how to make friends with them and hang out with them instead of negative people.

Hang out where these people do and it’s impossible to not be influenced by them subconsciously or to make a few friends like them. Do what they do in essence, find out their environmental influences and create that environment for yourself. You will be magnetically and naturally pulled into becoming more like them in lifestyle and character without much effort on an individual action level.

Here’s a secret…affirmations simply don’t work, not because the idea isn’t sound, but because the 10 or 15 minutes we just spent saying something to ourselves is overridden by the natural affirmations we constantly find in our job’s, via our GF/BF, by talking a lot to and watching negative people and how they treat us, which is said on autopilot the whole time we’re awake…so 15 minutes as compared to the other 8-10 hours spent saying something (thanks to the outside world) that is contradictory to that.

Create your world…look at the influences you have in your life now, look at your friends, what kind of person would have those kinds of friends? That is who you are when you relax your will. Change everything, I mean thats the end result of changing yourself anyways right? It changes the environment around you…so just try it out, start at the end, change your environment or influences in your life first. Give it a go for a time and let me know what happens, would love to hear your guys stories and share some of mine.