Lewis Howes

It's about having the best friends.

Best for motivating you, listening to you, and best to help you get to that next level.

That's what it's about.

I had to learn this the hard way.

I tried to please everyone, tons of people, getting back to everyone, constantly helping everyone, but not helping myself.

And my current circle now, man, I have had to create boundaries and structure and, you know, hold people to the side and not be able to be there for everyone all the time.

And I've really curated a small circle now.

I've really learned this about the quality of people in your life, not the quantity of people in your life.

And it doesn't mean I don't have relationships of a lot of people, but my core circle is just a few people.

It's really a few people that I show up for and they show up for me consistently.

And sure, there's different levels of relationships and people can come and go in that circle from time to time, but really it's been a core for a while now.

And that core is people that I can rely on, that I can be myself, that I hold them accountable and they hold me accountable.

And we can be honest with each other.

We can be honest about what's working, what's not working and not take offense to it.

So an action step for you is to take a few minutes and make a simple two column list, column one and column two.

And in column one at the top, put people who energize you.

And in column two at the top, put people who drain you.

Write this down.

Then choose one small shift that you can make this week to upgrade your environment.

And I want you to be thinking about the people in your life.