Go through the list in your head right now. The five people who get the most of your time, your conversations, your energy.
Because whether you want to admit it or not, you are becoming the average of those five people. Their standards are becoming your standards. Their ceiling is becoming your ceiling. Their comfort with staying stuck is becoming yours. It happened by proximity, one conversation at a time, until their normal became your normal and you stopped being able to see it.
This episode is the honest, uncomfortable truth. Why your environment beats your willpower every single time. The hard part about the people you have already outgrown and how to spot who is threatened when you start to grow. The brain science of mirror neurons and emotional contagion, which means you are literally being reprogrammed by the room whether you consent to it or not. The tropical plant in Antarctica analogy that will make you stop blaming your own seed. And how Jesus chose his twelve on purpose and refused to let the people who could only see the old him set the ceiling on his calling.
You are not trapped in that room. You just got comfortable in it and called your comfort loyalty.
Wake up and check your surroundings.
Go listen.
Branden LaNette
Podcast Coach
BrandenLaNette.com