Exercise: “Environment Design – Curate your Habits, Routines, and Inner Circle”
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Steps
Curate your Habits, Routines, and Inner Circle.
None of us can do it alone. Even if you could that misses the whole point of life—to share experiences, good and bad, with people you love. It’s said that we’re the average of our 5 closest friends. It’s a clever line that’s easy to dismiss but… Have you taken a hard look at your inner circle? What does the average of your 5 closest friends look like? Are you surrounded by people who build you up and challenge you to grow? Are they doing inspiring things? Do those closest to you GIVE you energy or ROB you of it? If it’s the latter, curating your inner circle may be the key to getting un-stuck. Cut toxic people from your life (or at least set boundaries), and invest in deep relationships with a handful of people you trust & admire (and vice-versa) – people who want to grow with you.
Step 1: Make it obvious
Introduce more opportunities to regularly experience your fulfilling tenets.
Step 2: Make it attractive
Curate your Inner Circle.
Step 3: Make it easy
Lower the activation energy required.
Step 4: Make it satisfying
Curate your Inner Circle. Reward yourself.
While there’s no perfect solution, we’ve found Tenets that satisfy the following criteria are often specific and actionable:
- Tenets are foundational base-level principles, beliefs, or values that influence your decisions / shape your behavior / define your emotions.
- Your Tenets exist in you regardless of whether you’re aware of or happy about them.
- Tenets describe a way of living life, rather than an end-state you want to achieve.
- Tenets are often limited to specific context(s) in your life.
- When writing Tenets, be explicit about how they should be embodied, and by who.
- When writing Tenets, state them as a sentence rather than a single word.