Success is a byproduct of the inner environment you create for yourself. Get that right, and success will follow. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently recommended a strategy called cocooning to protect your success ratio.
Cocooning (biologically) is the practice of vaccinating all close contacts, keeping all those around the infant disease-free. This circle includes mother and father as well as siblings, grandparents and other caregivers or potential caregivers. As a result, the infant is surrounded by people who pose no risk of spreading disease.
It’s important to remember.
-said study co-author James Fowler of the University of California San Diego.
that we’ve not only shown that obesity is contagious, but that thinness is contagious.
In other words, consciousness and mindset are as contagious as a whooping cough and other infectious diseases.
Check your cocoon.
If you find yourself constantly trying to obtain that ever-elusive success, stop and check your cocoon. Fulfillment and happiness are mere symptoms of the disease of mindset mastery- the same way cough, fever and nausea are symptoms of a whooping cough. Symptoms are effects, not the root cause. Stop pursuing effects and seize the cause.
An infant is infected with whooping cough by being around those who have the disease. The mindset mastery that produces success is just as contagious. Take inventory of your environment and assess your own cocoon.
Choose your environment.
Focus on the environment and the climate that you can create and control. Your airspace is yours and yours alone. There are many voices in the world, and all of them are clamouring for attention. In fact, everything on the planet has a voice, and they all talk to you. The chair in which you’re seated is speaking comfort or discomfort. Your car will start talking to you when the fuel gauge begins to get low.
Each voice is imbued with a corresponding emotion- a molecule of the disease it is carrying. The loudest and most influential emotional molecules stem from fear, followed by pain and then guilt. Love, of course, will overwhelm all others, and humour always seems to help.
Know what to ignore.
Is the glass-half-empty or half-full? Neither viewpoint is wrong. But a cocoon of half-empty friends is just as contagious as a cocoon of half-full friends.
No one lives in a vacuum. Once you rid your cocoon of worry, fear, anxiety and naysayers, you can fill it with voices that motivate you to the highest performance levels. Search out the voices that produce emotional molecules of perseverance, fortitude, determination, commitment, resilience, stamina and victory. Where are the voices that encourage you to thrive and flourish? You need to do more than merely survive- and you can’t afford to wither in the face of adversity.
