In this episode, we talk about how your environment affects your personal development.

Get excited because this is tiny leaps. Oops. Be Be. Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps, big changes where I share simple strategies you can use

to get more out of your life. My name is Greg Klunis and in this episode I want to discuss the role that our environment plays in our day to day and in our personal development.

I want to talk about how it can affect us, how it affects behavior and the choices that we make,

and most importantly I think I want to talk about how we can change our goal setting to consider this fact.

So this should be a super good episode.

Make sure you stick around all the way to the end.

Now with that said, we often make the mistake when trying to develop ourselves

and improve our lives by just focusing on the actual behavior change. Now this matters.

Of course if we get ourselves to stop doing

something it would lead to some kind of change in our outcome or if we get ourselves

to start doing something it would also lead to some kind of change in our outcome, but it's not the whole picture.

This is proven by the sheer number of people who commit themselves to development each and every year,

only to drop off within a few months.

Here's how it typically happens.

We get excited about the chance to start over and start clean.

We set our goals.

We maybe even get some friends involved to hold us accountable, and we start taking action.

For some of us we might even go as far as to hire a coach, or buy a book, or start taking a class. But yet over the long term change still doesn't come.

So what's actually going on here?

Well according to Statisticsbrain.com, only 46% of New Year's resolutions last longer than six months from when they were set.

And if we dive a little bit deeper, a study by the Fitness app Strava found that January 2nd is when Americans are

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