Design Your Life To Trigger Positive Behavior, Overcome Negative Patterns, & Become Who You Want To Be

What if you could design your environment to trigger the life you want to live?

World-renowned leadership coach and bestselling author Marshall Goldsmith calls the environment a “relentless triggering machine” that constantly drains our willpower.

Marshall even relates to the environment like an authoritarian being who is constantly trying to enforce its will upon you! Clearly, you have to fight back.

See, your environment either triggers you to become more of who you want to be.

Or more of who you DO NOT want to be.

Relentlessly.

You are ALWAYS being molded by your environment in a positive or negative way — you never stay the same.

So, here are the three levers you can pull to create an environment conducive to your growth:

• Change your entire environment: Work at a buzzing coffee shop to generate creative ideas instead of your uninspiring home office. Or, move to a completely different part of the world to start a fresh chapter of life.

• Remove negative triggers from your environment: Remove junk food from your house when you want to eat healthy. Or, turn your phone on airplane mode to avoid distraction and enhance your focus.

• Add positive triggers to your environment: Write down your mantra and tape it where you look every day to remind you of who you want to be. Or, simply put your workout gear where you have to step over it the next day, so that you remember to work out.

There are INFINITE ways to re-design your environment. And even the smallest change can have a significant impact.

But...

Before you pull those three levers, you must first become aware of how your current environment is triggering you.

• At what times in your day does your mood significantly shift?

• What are the triggers that cause that shift?

• Are those triggers creating positive or negative momentum in your life?

• What happens after those triggers arise? What do those triggers “make you” think, feel, and do?

• Are these triggers helping you create more of who you want to be? Or less? After you have clearly articulated the triggers in your life, you can begin the process of re-designing them. And, to set expectations, this process never ends.

From here onward, you are playing an infinite game of re-designing your environment.

And you must become a master.

Otherwise, you will be designed by the world — and you won’t enjoy that very much. You’ll be forever triggered to live below your potential. You’ll merely be a reactive and impulsive machine.

And instead of taking ownership and exercising your creative power, you will default to blaming other people and external circumstance for your problems.

Instead, start rigging the world in your favor.

Re-design your environment to trigger the life you want to live.

Love, Connor

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