Not Everyone Around You Is On Your Side

IF THIS HIT YOUR INBOX TODAY, TAKE A SECOND AND ASK YOURSELF… WHO AROUND YOU ACTUALLY HAS YOUR BACK, AND WHO JUST HAS A GRIP ON YOU?

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I walked out of a client conversation today and it stayed with me longer than I expected, so I want to say this to you the same way I said it to him, like we’re just talking for a minute.

He’s leading companies, sitting on boards, doing all the things people would look at and say “you’ve made it,” and yet he was frustrated because he felt like people were out to get him, like there was always someone working against him, and I could hear the weight of that in the way he said it.

So I asked him something simple, and I want you to sit with this too for a second.

When you look around your life right now, who is actually around you?

Whether we like it or not, there are always three kinds of people in the room with us.

There are the ones who are genuinely for you, the ones who will hold the ladder steady while you climb, the ones who want to see you win and will even push you higher when you hesitate, and if you’ve ever had even one of those people in your life, you know how different it feels to be around them.

Then there are the ones in the middle, the ones who aren’t for you or against you, they’re just watching, they don’t lose sleep over your success or your failure, and if you’re being honest, you probably don’t cross their mind as much as you think you do.

And then there’s the third group, and this is the one people don’t want to admit they’re still holding onto.

These are the ones who love to see you struggle, the ones who get quieter when you succeed, the ones who question you in a way that doesn’t build you, it chips at you, and you can feel it, even if you’ve never said it out loud.

This is the part I told him, and I’m going to say it to you the same way.

You don’t get pulled down all at once, it happens slowly, through who you keep listening to, who you keep explaining yourself to, who you keep trying to win over long after you’ve already felt the resistance.

So let me ask you something, and I want you to actually answer it for yourself, not just read past it.

Who in your life feels like they are lifting you without you having to ask?
Who is just there, watching, with no real impact either way?
And who do you feel yourself shrinking around, even if you can’t fully explain why?

Start noticing what you’ve been tolerating.

And once you see it clearly, you can’t unsee it.

The people around you are always moving you, even when nothing is being said, and if you’ve been feeling stuck, tired, or second guessing yourself more than usual, it might not be your capability, it might be the environment you keep choosing to stay in.

Just something to sit with today. 🦁

And if this stirred something in you, don’t just scroll past it and go back to the same rooms, same conversations, same patterns.

Take five quiet minutes today and actually write it down, names and all, no filtering, no softening it to make it feel better, just honest.

If you’re ready to shift who you’re surrounded by or how you show up inside those spaces, send me a message and we’ll talk it through. 🦁

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