This article has been in my tab tray since the day you posted it and now I've finally got around to reading it and boy am I happy that I have. And it's weird how this post directly coincides with a program I was listening to this morning called “Conversational Magic” by the NLP Ninja, Robert Dilts.

The program's sole focus is centered on how language used elegantly, has the power to allow people to get the fuck out of their own way.

We all have conversations everyday, even if the only ones we have are the ones inside our own head. Actually, those are the most important ones of all. While posts like this and speeches by the likes of Dr. Martin Luther King or Tony Robbins can move us to action, relying on or waiting for someone else to inspire us to action is something the mediocre do. And yet, our identity, our personalities, our persona are nothing more than a patchwork quilt of all the people we've spent the most time with, our own personal experiences, and the meanings we attach to everything that's happened to us in our lives.

It's said that we're the sum total of the 5 people we spend the majority of our time with. The conversations these people have with themselves affects the conversations they have with you which in turn affects your behavior. Is the effect positive or negative? And the question this begs is “Are you affecting people you hang with in a negative or positive manner due to the conversations you have with yourself?”

The Greatest Reason To Root Mediocrity Out Of Your Life:

To horribly paraphrase Einstein here, “The same level of thinking that created a problem, can't be used to solve it.” If mediocrity rules your conversations with yourself and the five people you surround yourself with most, you create a prison of your own making. And in the same light, when you focus on hanging out with people who consciously use language to transform what happens, and what has happened, into something resourceful, you almost can't help but be positively affected by the doors that get opened for you.

Erika, I'm sure the top 5 in your universe are benefiting from the energy you bring to those relationships. And while we don't know each other, I'm grateful for knowing this is a place I can come to take a hit off the “Extraordinary” joint. A place where the conversation reminds me to stay the fuck out of my own way so that I don't get in the way of my top 5. Thanks again girly.

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