A clear indication of how you are proceeding on the path to achieving your goals….look at the five people closest to you in your life. Take an fearless inventory of who you spend the most time with and talk to the most. Do they carry the same values and priorities that you do?
By osmosis, we pick up on the beliefs, motivations and lifestyles of those we are closest to. When we align with people we aspire to be like or admire – we automatically uplevel our success quotient.
In yoga, we call this satsanga.
Sanga means community.
Satya means truth.
Satsang = a community of truth seekers or like-minded individuals.
In the study of self-actualization, the siddhis (sages) of ancient India understood the power of community and knew the influence the collective mind (in Jungian terms – the collective unconscious) directly and exponentially impacts the quality of our thoughts, moods and motivations. Choosing to be healthy, wealthy and wise gets a lot easier when you are hanging around people who are doing the same.
As always, please share, “like” and leave a comment on what works for you and post your questions for next week here.
Here’s to getting a little help from your friends!
I have just been doing a “friend inventory” so to speak and am realizing I am outgrowing some people that I have been super close with for over a decade. It is a loss, but you are so right in that we cannot expect out higher self to manifest greatness if we don’t allow the energy around us to be invigorated with like-minded spirits.
Ashley, Thank you for yet another wonderful e-volve video. I like your idea about surrounding yourself with like minded people to achieve your goals. But what if your closest person like your spouse/gf/bf etc is not aligned with that one goal you are trying to achieve. For example if i am trying to stay healthy and lose weight and my husband loves eating out and is indirectly responsible for my unhealthy eating habits. How do you distance yourself from him? In fact i don’t want to re-evaluate this relationship, i don’t want to distance myself from him but at the same I want to also achieve my goal.
Nice!