Lewis Howes

I'm here to create healthy, conscious relationships and communicate kindly, courageously, and clearly, but to make sure that I do it in a loving way with the people closest to me and people around me as well.

It's just, how can I be my best?

And I'm never going to be perfect.

And this is not about you being perfect.

But when I started to surround myself with people who had strong boundaries and high standards, I leveled up as well.

I learned how to do that for myself.

And this is why I really love being around mentors, people that are much wiser than me, who have gone through the highs and lows, who have beautiful marriages, beautiful families, beautiful businesses or careers, or they're making a difference in their communities in a certain way.

I really appreciate being around those individuals because I feel like I can learn and I can level up myself by being around them.

Respect is contagious.

And a step that I want you to take today is to audit your circle.

I want you to do this right now.

I want you to make a list of the people you spend the most time with, whether it be your friends, your family, your colleagues, or your peers.

And I want you to write a list of who you're, you know, I don't see my siblings that often.

I see them a couple of times a year if I'm lucky.

So, you know, I think about my family and, you know, I'll talk to them on the phone, but I'm not around them constantly.

So I don't even have that as like my close circle of people I spend the most time with.

So the people you spend the most time with your coworkers, your boss,

your employees, think about people in your career, your business.

Are you surrounding yourself with people that are constantly leveling up and growing?

Or are they sucking the life out of you?