What Are Environments?
An environment is anything that supports you to be or to perform a certain way. People often don’t think of these things as environments, but they most definitely are. Everything around you has some impact on you and how you do what you do. If there is something in your life that is not the way you want it to be, look to see what mechanisms are in place that are encouraging or reinforcing this outcome. Environments include people (friends, family, coworkers, boss, and other professionals such as therapists, coaches, physical trainers, etc.), structures, and/or systems to keep you growing in the direction you want to go and they are integral to initiating and sustaining change. For example, a cluttered physical environment contributes to your feeling busy and stressed. And it follows that if your physical environment is cluttered, other areas of your life are probably cluttered as well — finances, relationships, etc. This constant state of commotion is an environment (a negative one) t
