Designing Environments To Support Growth & Change

June 2003

I am pleased to send to you this month's issue of Champions. Champions is a monthly e-zine of thought provoking ideas. It is a celebration of positive thoughts and ideas that when put into action will lead to a positive, productive, fulfilling and satisfying personal and business life. It is my hope that Champions will help to inspire people to learn, grow, evolve and achieve.

Designing Environments To Support Growth & Change

Do you want to give yourself an edge when attempting to grow or change? Then consider designing environments that will support you. Success comes quicker and easier when you're not fighting uphill battles or constantly clearing obstacles that get in your way.

What Is An Environment?

An environment is a part of your daily experience and can be both tangible and intangible. People, who strive to improve themselves, their businesses, or careers, will most often just focus on themselves as the source of their success or failure. By designing environments that support growth and change, you can set up a system that can help you to automatically move toward a more effortless success.

Environments Can:

1. Stimulate success- they can take care of routine tasks and support you in doing things you need to do to stimulate your success.
2. Do the work for you- from automated bill paying to task reminders, they can take care of time consuming details and activities so you are free to do other things.
3. Inspire creativity- you can increase your creativity and inspiration by setting up your environment so that you are constantly engaged by and in the company of what inspires you.

Make Environments Meaningful To You

The trick with designing environments that really work is to create a profound relationship with the environment. Samples of environments can include; family, friends, nature, knowledge, workspace, structured deadlines, mission/vision/inspiration, systems/automation, goals, and activities, just to name a few.

Food for Thought

What's an example of an environment that might work for you? What makes it empowering or inspirational? How would investing time and energy in designing this environment benefit you?

Survey Question

In the April issue of Champions, I wrote about the Top Ten Attributes of Resilient People. I received a very positive response to the article. That feedback has inspired me to ask you to email me the answers to these two questions;

1. How do you overcome adversity?
2. What do you do to recharge or stay resilient?

I'll publish the feedback in a future Champions. Just email me your responses and thank you for sharing your feedback. To see past issues of Champions, click here.

Announcements

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Good luck on your journey to success!

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