One of the things you need to understand is that your location is more than the place you are living - it is the environment that creates your habit, feeds your thoughts, shapes your ambition, and even charts a course of life for you. This includes the people you relate with, the discussions you engage in, your interactions, and even the opportunities that come your way. Whether you believe it or not, the power of your location to shape you and to determine how you rise in life is undeniable. There are places you will stay and you will find yourself producing big results even with little input. This is why location can determine your elevation.
I once read a story, which may appear fictional, yet with some very good life lessons. The story has it that a lion's cub was abandoned in the woods, and later found its way into the herd of sheep. The cub started growing together with the sheep for a long time and became an adult lion. However, the lion forgot its identity as a lion and thought itself a sheep because of its environment. There were sometimes that, when they go to drink water from the stream, a lion would show up, and the herd of sheep will run away, including the lion that was already growing with the sheep. This kept on happening because the lion had lost its identity because of its environment.
One day, when the herd of sheep went to the same stream to drink water together with the lion, it looked into the water and was shocked to see its reflection, and it saw that the animal they were running away from actually looks like it. The next time the lions came, it did not run again, because it discovered its identity. It left together with the lions and started living like a lion which it is. If not, it would have lived and died believing that it is a sheep simply because of its location. A very major part of what you accomplish in life can be traceable to where you stay dominantly. If an eagle grows inside the poultry of the chicken, it will forget how to fly.
It is worthy to note that there are people who have not fulfilled their true potentials and are stagnated, not because they are not talented, but because of staying in the wrong location. If you are surrounded by the wrong influence or you are in the wrong location, it will negatively impact on your growth. But staying in the right location can push you, motivate you to take the right steps, and inspire you towards greatness. You will agree with me that when you stay in a place where successful business people are around, you will observe them, learn a couple of things from them, apply them, and become successful.
Success grows and increases in the right atmosphere. Take planting for example: when you plant a seed in a fertile land, then regularly water it and expose it to the best farm practices, it will grow well and produce fruits. But if you plant the same seed in a rocky ground or among thorns, it will struggle to germinate, talk more of growing. Same seed, but difference in location is what makes the difference. In the say way, even if you have all the potentials you can think of and you are heavily talented, but you are in an environment that discourages progress, celebrates mediocrity, or mocks ambition, your growth will be negatively impacted. Your location determines your elevation.
You also need to understand that there are times that, it may not really be about changing the location entirely, but changing the environment you are in. You can transform your environment by employing positive things into it - like listening to inspirational speeches, reading books, joining progressive groups, staying away from negatively inclined people. All these will transform your environment from what it used to be to what you want it to be. Even if you cannot change your physical location, you can change your mindset, change your attitude, and change your disposition to life, and you will be surprised that your environment will respond the way you want it.
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