Your State Is Your Internal Environment

Something that has become central to my understanding of behavior change is that your environment is everything.

We live unconsciously 95% of the time, which means that for most of the day we are just drifting in whatever direction our environment is taking us. We make the choices, take the actions, and get the results that are perfectly calibrated to our environment.

Things don’t happen by mistake or chance, they’re the perfect byproduct of our design.

Environment shows up in many ways you wouldn’t even realize. Our belief system is an environment where we unconsciously assign meaning to the world around us, which shapes our thoughts. Having clarity and an action plan is an environment because it highlights the path we want to take, and helps us avoid getting hijacked by confusion. 

But the environment I want to elaborate more on today is our physical state. Your state is your internal environment.

The health, energy, and vitality that you experience internally plays a huge role in what manifests externally. You’re more likely to get in the gym when you’re not exhausted. You’re less irritable and argumentative with people when you’ve eaten. You can better put off distractions and stay focused when you’re feeling good.

Why? Because you’ve created a supportive internal environment, one that promotes more of what you want and less of what you don’t.

This is why it’s so important to make healthy choices. Quality exercise, diet, and rest increase your energy levels. With more energy, not only do you have more conscious control of yourself and your feelings, but unconsciously you’re being pushed in a more empowered direction.

A positive physical state helps you show up to everyday moments with more presence, focus, and quality without even having to think about it. It’s a filter that goes on top of everything you do.

If you know that you’re not living the healthy lifestyle you want, and you’re ready to really start prioritizing it (even through busy life with endless responsibilities that make it hard to do), you should sign up for the 21 Day Super Habits Challenge. It will make you unrecognizably disciplined as you consistently make the healthy choice by walking you through a step by step process that takes only 5 minutes a day to do.