Carolina de Arriba

Start there.

Your environment also includes the people around you.

And I want to say this carefully because

It can sound harsh, but some people in your life generally don't want you to change.

Not because they're bad people, but because if you change, it challenges the fact that they're not changing.

You don't have to cut those people off, but you need to be intentional about finding at least one person who's working on similar things.

I always use this example.

If you sign up for a marathon, you want to run a marathon, but every one of your friends, none of them are runners.

And they're constantly inviting you after work to go grab a beer or

or go eat out or do anything but running, right?

What is the likelihood that you're actually gonna stay consistent with the training that you're required to do to get ready for that marathon?

Now, what if instead of surrounding yourself with those people, you surround yourself with runners who text you at six in the morning to say, hey, Carolina, let's go for a run.

How more likely will you succeed at running that marathon?

You want people around you who gets excited when you win.

Someone who makes you feel like the goal is actually possible.

Your environment will either carry you towards your goal or will pull you away from it.

You get to decide which.

The third lever is understanding the feedback loop and specifically why it makes us quit before the results even show up.

Here's the problem with building real systems.

The good stuff doesn't happen right away.