Your Circle Matters

Freud said, “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not surrounded by idiots.” 

The majority of people only know themselves, outside in, through others.

People don’t spend enough time getting to know themselves, and they care too much about what others think.

Charles Horton Cooley, an American sociologist said: “I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am“.

We are who others believe we are.

We listen to every single voice outside of us, but the one inside of us.

Your circle matters.

Make sure that people in your life make you feel good about yourself.

That doesn’t mean they don’t help you to grow and lie to you that you have an amazing voice when you don’t.

It means that even in their brutal honesty they don’t shame you and they still manage to tell you the truth in an empowering way.

And also stop being so disconnected from yourself.

Spend a few minutes in solitude and in silence. Ask yourself questions. Get to know yourself. Understand yourself. Befriend yourself. learn what drains you and what gives you energy. Investigate what is the ideal circumstance that you need to thrive, to be the best version of yourself.

As a flower needs an ideal environment to grow, so are you. You need the ideal environment to grow and thrive.

Inside out is the way.

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