ITL199: How to Shape Your Environment to Achieve Your "Best"
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, we’re continuing our visit inside my office and discussing why it looks the way it does.
People have made excuses for themselves and other people based on environment.
• As an adult, you have control over your environment.
• You are never trapped, although you may choose to think you’re trapped.
• If you understand that your thinking is the foundation of everything, that gives you control. You want to achieve “the best.”
• The objects in my office spur a specific thought. Everything has a story and lesson.
Everywhere I look, I want to produce gratefulness and belief in my spirit.
• I have to produce the best in writing and speaking topics. To do that, I know what kind of thinking produces the best.
• When I am in an ungrateful or aggravated state of mind, could I possibly come in and create the best?
• I urge you to not have the same kind of office that everyone has.
Tune in to the full episode to hear about the personal letters from around the world Andy hangs in his office, and why they’re almost disappearing from view!
Please send us pictures of what this episode prompts you to do with your office or workspace; also let us know the state of mind you were after.
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· Phone: 1-800-726-ANDY
· E-Mail: InTheLoop@AndyAndrews.com
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· Twitter.com/AndyAndrews
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:10.4 | Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:13.3 | Hi and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm your host, David Loy. |
| 0:17.9 | And Andy, once again, we're sitting here in your office. |
| 0:20.7 | This is so, it's different here in your office. This is so, |
| 0:22.0 | it's different, it's fun. It is, it's odd. Again, exactly. I can't tell people enough, |
| 0:28.5 | whatever your picture. Organized, organized trash pile. Exactly. Okay, so we're kind of keeping |
| 0:34.4 | this theme going because I think this is so important for people to hear, |
| 0:38.8 | to learn more. Everybody is seeking wisdom. Anybody that's listening to this, I'm assuming that. |
| 0:45.0 | I mean, if they've listened to anything that you've said, read anything that you've written, |
| 0:49.7 | then surely at the key, at the core of that is that people are just trying to be better. They're |
| 0:55.4 | trying to learn more. Your mission is to help people live a life that they've always wanted to |
| 0:59.7 | if they only knew how. So we're just kind of making that assumption that if you're listening |
| 1:04.6 | to this, you are eager to learn and that you are seeking wisdom. And Andy, you've talked several |
| 1:10.1 | times that one decision in the seven decisions, I will seek wisdom. So many times people put the influence on wisdom. I did for a long time. That's why I put it in a book. Right. But what's the most important word? The most important word is the seek part. The seek part. I mean, wisdom, in a way, it can be considered kind of like a rock. You know, it just sits there |
| 1:28.3 | until you find it and figure out what to do with it. Yes. Okay. So that is our assumption. |
| 1:34.2 | If you're listening to this, then we're assuming that that's how you are approaching life. And |
| 1:38.8 | Andy, I want to dig a little further into the ways that you seek wisdom. We're sitting here in your office. And |
| 1:45.5 | for somebody who doesn't see this every day, you see this every single day of your life. So I'm |
| 1:50.8 | sure that you don't even know what I find odd. Like the things, I mean, you're used to it. So |
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