Keep Setting Your Standards Higher

If you find yourself in a group of people who consistently speak negatively, eat poorly, don’t take care of themselves, don’t try hard at work etc., you’re going to feel like a superstar just for existing, but when you shift yourself into an environment filled with people who inspire you to become a better version of yourself everyday, that’s when you’ll improve. 

You never want to set your standards at an equal with where you currently are, let alone below that. When you reach your current standard, you then shoot for higher ones. This is how you keep enhancing your life.

Who you surround yourself with, and where you find yourself located, is so much more important than you may think. Every second of the day you are receiving information that is being stored, the words being spoken to you are being registered by your brain, and if you are subconsciously unaware of your surroundings, you may not notice yourself start to change. It is a great thing if you are encompassed by inspiration and challenge, but not so great if the company you are keeping makes it look like brushing your teeth is an accomplishment. 

The same goes for relationship standards; if your friends are allowing their partner to treat them like garbage, but they forgive them time after time, you may start to think maybe it is fine every once and a while to be treated poorly. Let alone if you allow your partner to treat you a certain way, time and time again, they will keep doing it. They are lowering your standards without you even noticing. 

Your standards for every aspect of your life, is how you will be interpreted and treated by others. You know that one person in your life who takes literally NO shit from anyone? Nobody is going to be f*cking with them, I can tell you that much. The people who you look up to, and are motivated by, chose to keep raising the bar, and very likely are still raising the bar, because each milestone they reach, creates a new standard for their life. 

Something I have come to conceptualize over time is that there is no limit, there is no limit to happiness, to success, to love, to peace. There is no threshold for the amount that you can have, it is boundless. So with that said, why are you limiting yourself? Why are you settling for less than you really deserve? 

The truth is that you are the only person in your way of everything you want and desire. Just because it isn’t in front of you right now, does not mean you can’t have it, or that it isn’t on its way to you. You just have to deeply believe you are worthy of it, and then put your money where your mouth is, and start acting like it. 

Set your standards as high as possible, because once you are convinced that you are deserving of what you really want (as you should), and once you decide you won’t settle for anything less than that, things around you will start to transform.