Rising Above Your Immediate Surroundings

Rising Above Your Immediate Surroundings

A reason why people can’t get healthy, lose weight, or find success with anything is because they find it difficult to change the environment they dwell in.

If you lived next door to a fruit and vegetable produce shop and you’re able to get a free sample smoothie everyday, chances are you’d consume more fruit and vegetables.

This is especially so if the nearest burger and donut shop was way outside of town. The same holds true with the people around you.

If none of your family or friends are ready to give up the unhealthy lifestyle and you can’t change your surroundings (inside your mind and out), it will be very difficult to make the changes necessary. Rising above your immediate surroundings is one of the most challenging things anyone will do in order to change a bad habit.

The best thing to do is to love your family and be the “Martin Luther King Jr.” for them. Be the change, be the example, and as Michael Jordan’s dad once said to him, “if they follow you, they follow you, but if they don’t they don’t, but you have to take lead from the beginning!”

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