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Of course it's no excuse, but....
In my "real" environment there is nobody who is interested in self-employment and entrepreneurship.... Also nobody is completely against it. But there is simply no interest... Slowlaners who are happy and satisfied.
Great people and my friends. No problem.
Some of you probably have this "problem" too, don't you?
Does it matter to you at all?
Have you noticed how you change yourself when you meet real people who act more like you?
Did you intentionally search for such people? Not to network business-wise but rather to simply surround yourself with them as friends?
It would be hard to overstate the amount that my "real life" environment is a slowlane one.
I could rant and tell a crazy story of how bad it is, but suffice it to say that my friends are slowlaners and my husband is a sidewalker. So not much encouragement from that front. If I'm going to merge into the fastlane, I'm going to have to rise from the ashes of my upbringing and my surroundings.
Here's the way I look at it:
This is boot camp.
It's the perfect training ground for me to develop a strong, unbreakable internal locus of control.
My environment doesn't have to drag me down.
On the contrary, my environment is precisely the thing that makes me stronger. If I can triumph and stand alone and flourish in this environment, then I can make it through the very difficult journey of entrepreneurship.
It's like when a monarch butterfly is emerging from a chrysalis. I don't know if you've ever sat and watched this, but I have. The struggle is excruciating, and it takes hours.
If you help the butterfly by breaking open the chrysalis, then you're actually hurting it. Its wings never fully develop, and it dies.
The struggle is critical to the development and unfolding of the butterfly's delicate wings.
So while everyone else around me is doing their slowlane thing, I'm working to forge a new path. I'm developing new habits. I'm breaking old mindsets. I'm just quietly working away.
And I find there's a steadiness and a maturity that comes from being able to carry out my own plans in the face of the entire spectrum, from cluelessness to doubt to fear, that exists around me.
It's not that it doesn't matter---but I don't let it affect me.
All the best to you on your journey! It's not easy, but it's possible.
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