It’s likely you are familiar with the idea that the people we surround ourselves with, matters.
Our identities and our lives are 🔸hugely socially influenced🔸and shaped.
💡Most of this is not conscious to us 🧠
We are wired for connection and for safety – so it’s easy and comfortable to hang out with people who broadly think the same as us.
Those interactions reflect and reinforce what we already believe to be true. 🤔
Sometimes that might be helpful to us and other times it can close us off to truly accessing the life we want to live.
Whilst it’s important for us to feel safe, if we want to truly live OUR lives and rather than be surrounded by people who just agree with everything we say, a level of positive challenge from those around us can be a blessing.
🔹It can lead us to create solutions to problems we had felt were unsolvable🔹It helps us access new ways of seeing the world 🌍
I was reminded of this at the weekend, whilst on a walk with a good friend who instead of agreeing with everything I said, curiously challenged my views.
Within her curious questions was an opportunity for me to pause, reflect, examine and decide if there was something else to know, to learn and to become aware of in order to finalise a decision I was mulling over.
🔸Who or what in your life provides you an opportunity to see something that is unseen?
🔹Who in your life fuels your growth and helps you become a better thinker?
🧠 What has helped you grow and see things differently?
Live Your Truth🌱 Know Your Mind🧠 Love Your Life💚
Alison Sinclair – Self Leadership Coach ICF-ACC
Want different results in your life? Become the observer of your thinking patterns. It is here you can uncover new pathways forwards.
#thinkingbreakthroughs#healthyintrospection#mentalfitness
