The people who steal your joy. In other words, you can do a list in your journal later today, or
right after this episode, write down in the first column on the left-hand side of the page, who in my life is stealing or diminishing my joy. And then in the right hand column, write down who are the people in my life who elevate my joy. And then have the wisdom and bravery to start
removing and releasing the people in your life who are bringing you down.
And then I always get this message a lot or this question a lot, well, what if it’s my mother? What if it’s my best friend? I’d simply say to you, people come into our lives for reasons, seasons or lifetimes. And one of the ways you can tell a victim in action is they give away their power to other people. You have a lot more power than you may be exercising in awareness, and you have the power to let go of people. Even if it’s a family member, or you could say it’s going to be selective association. Rather than talking to them every day, I’m going to speak with them once a week or see them once a month, or you can never see them again. You can see them less often. It might be in-between, but you have the power to do what feels right to you. The larger point is simply this, the first thing I wish I’d learned when I was 20 is you can be around energy-vampires or you can change the world. You don’t get to do both.