What is a "Growth Environment"?

We want to grow – right?  In this world we’re either growing or we’re dying – improving or disintegrating.

Can you move beyond your circumstances to grow?  Are you in the right place to grow?  What does a growth environment look like?

My mentor John Maxwell has the following on a laminated index card he has carried for decades:

1. A place where others are ahead of me.
2. A place where I am continually challenged.
3. A place where the focus is forward, not backward – on tomorrow, not yesterday. (What am I doing today to set up success tomorrow?)
4. A place where the atmosphere is affirming – (Become each others’ chief cheerleader!)
5. A place where I am out of my comfort zone.  (My whole life will be out of my comfort zone – growth is where I’m taking a risk.)
6. A place where I wake up excited – (Where you know that you will be with like-minded people.)
7. A place where failure is not your enemy.  Failure is OK.  I fail a lot because I take risks.  Your friends pick you up when you’re down.
8. A place where other people are growing.
9. A place where people desire change – make right changes and you will grow.
10. A place where growth is modeled for me, and expected from me.

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