Your life and your productivity and your creativity absolutely depends on deleting energy vampires, dream stealers, and toxic bandits from your life. My life changed when I started getting… And there’s a model in the book called Joy is a GPS, and here’s what it means. Populate your life with people who fill you with joy. That’s your heart telling you who belongs in your life. And anyone who diminishes your joy, anyone who laughs at your dreams, anyone who doesn’t understand you, anyone, who when you’re with them, just make you feel bad, disappointed, dejected, unenthusiastic. These might be your family members. It might be your best friend. It might be work colleagues. I understand it, and I’ve heard it before, and I say that with respect, but those are the people who are blocking you from your greatness and who are diminishing your joy.
So, one of the best things you can do is release the people from your life who are toxic.
They are affecting your creativity. They are affecting your neurobiology. They are affecting your immune system. They’re affecting your epigenetics. I talk in the book about all of these things including the power of epigenetics. There’s a lot of neurobiology in the book, along with spirituality, along with productivity, but the point I want to say to you and suggest to you with great love and respect, if you want to build prosperity and creativity and live a great life, you’ve got to get rid of the energy vampires, and you might be addicted to them. It might be codependence. It’s not easy, but it’s worth it.