Energy Check: Do Your People Lift You or Weigh You Down?

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Today, we’re diving into an eye-opening topic: The Five People You Spend the Most Time With. Are they fueling your fire, or are they draining your energy? We often don’t realize how much our inner circle shapes our mindset, emotions, and even our future. I recently had a conversation with my mom that made me take a step back and truly evaluate how I feel after spending time with certain people. It was a wake-up call! So, I’m sharing my experience and encouraging you to check in with yourself this week—who’s in your circle, and how are they affecting you?

In this episode, we’ll discuss:
 ✨ How the people around you influence your energy and success
 ✨ Signs that someone in your circle may be draining you
 ✨ How to assess your relationships and set boundaries when needed

Key Takeaways:

✔️ You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
✔️ Notice how you feel after interactions—energized or drained?
✔️ If you can’t change the people around you, set boundaries to protect your energy.
✔️ Find communities that uplift and inspire you!

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Episode Transcript

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Yeti Nano (Yeti Nano)-1 (00:33):
Hey friend.
Welcome back to the Enter Sparkpodcast.
I'm your host, Casey Taton.
On this shower sprinkle, I wannatalk about the five people you
surround yourself with.
Are the five people you surroundyourself up with.
Are they lighting you up?
Are they sucking you dry?
Are they sucking your gas tankand all your energy dry, or are

(00:54):
you leaving that conversation?
Filled, lit up with joy andexcitement and ready to conquer
the day.
There are true facts on who youspend the most time with and how
it makes you feel.

Yeti Nano (Yeti Nano)-3 (01:11):
So let's dig into this for a
second.

Yeti Nano (Yeti Nano) (01:14):
I wanna talk about who you surround
yourself with.
And I'm talking about the fivepeople you spend the most time
with.
That could be anyone from yourparents, your kids, your
friends.
A lot of times you spend themost time with people you work
with.
whatever you're doing, who areyou spending the most time with?
Have heard this about three, atleast three times this week, and

(01:38):
I believe in the power of threethat if you hear something three
times, you should probably startpaying attention to it.
And it was all from differentpodcasts, different coaches and
different people.
I was around and it was talkingabout, you know, we are the
power of the five people wespend the most time with.
There's research saying you arethe average of the five people
you spend the most time with.

(01:58):
The concepts suggest that thepeople who surround our, we
surround ourselves with greatlyinfluence our thoughts,
behaviors, and ultimately shapewho we become.
That's really powerful.
If you think about it, it's truewhen you're around your best
friend, a lot you, I mean,females can relate to this,

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sometimes you start dressingalike.
Sometimes you can startfinishing people's sentences.
You start acting alike.
You start doing things alike,and it's just because you're
surrounded with them, you'resurrounded by them a lot.
But here's something else tothink about When you're
surrounding yourself with thesepeople, they also influence our

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behavior, our attitudes, and howwe feel.
This week I recently was sittingaround thinking, how am I
feeling when I am doing things,when I'm in certain situations?
And I did notice it and my momand I actually had a

(03:00):
conversation this week about it,about different things that I've
done this week.
And I am so blessed to be in somany good communities with just
like-minded people and doing,getting to do things that I love
and going to a gym that I love.
I told my mom, you know, everytime this happens, I feel like

(03:23):
it's around the same person.
And she said, yeah.
I know you really enjoy doingthat, but it seems to be a
constant thing that every timeyou're around these people, you
are drained, you're exhausted.
Your energy is just different.
When other people are noticingit, that definitely means it's

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making an impact in youreveryday life.
And I don't know about you, butI started paying attention to it
because I wanna be the bestversion of me and I wanna be
surrounded by people who wantnothing, but to see me grow and
succeed.
And do good in life and enjoylife and have fun.
We all have goals and you wantthose people who want you to

(04:09):
rise, and that's not saying youcan't have a bad day, and these
people aren't there to supportyou on your bad times.
It's just saying, how do youtruly feel when this person
walks away from you?
Do you leave feeling energizedor do you leave feeling drained,

(04:31):
like start paying attention toyour posture?
Are you slumped over?
Are you feeling exhausted?
Are you tired or do you leaveeither hanging up the phone or
getting off a zoom call or justrunning into someone?
And that feeling like feelinglit up and inspired where it's

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like, yes, I'm gonna go conquerthe world.
That's how it should be.
The people that you surroundyourself with matter.
So start paying attention to howam I acting?
How am I feeling?
Do they truly support me?

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And I know sometimes it's hardbecause sometimes it could be a
family member, sometimes itcould be somebody who lives with
you.
So then you have to startadjusting your boundaries, and
that's a whole nother topic.
That's a whole nother podcastabout setting boundaries, it's
just really, truly noticing howdo I wanna fill and how am I

(05:36):
allowing myself to fill when Ileave that person, when I have a
conversation with that person,when that person's name even
comes to my mind, what do Ithink about?
Is it something positive or do Iinstantly go down that rabbit
hole of like, oh, they're gonnacomplain about this.
Their days are horrible, theirweeks are horrible.

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Yeah, we all have bad days, butthat's not where I'm going.
I'll be there to support you,but I wanna be around people who
are like, Hey, we're in thistogether.
We caught you, we caught you,sister, let's go.
Yes, you can go cry about thatfor a little bit, but let's go.
We wanna feel good and cheereach other on.

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So I really encourage you justthis week to just go notice who
you spend the most time with andhow does that make you feel, and
how are you allowing it to makeyou feel?
Because we all have control ofhow we feel and what we allow
in.
Sometimes we don't always havecontrol over.

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People we spend time with.
If it's someone you work with orsomeone you're, you know, you
live with, but you do have thecontrol to not allow them to
drain your energy.
So go out this week, look at whoyou're surrounded by, or sit
here and think about yourfriends.

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How do those interactions go?
Truly set and fill it in yourbody.
Like do you get excited to callthem?
Do you get excited to go dosomething with them or even hear
their name?
Because that person is justuplifting and encouraging and
supporting.
Take a look this week, friends.

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Everywhere I went, I was justhearing these signs and I just
knew that I needed to, if I'mfeeling something, I wanna share
it with you all.
So just check in with yourselfand see how are you feeling, and
who are you surrounding yourselfwith.
Make sure you have someonethat's uplifting you.
As always, I leave you with thistoday.

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Go be around your people, aroundyour family, whoever you're
around, and truly check in withyourself when you're with them
and think about how you feelwhen you walk away.
The stats on it are ridiculouslycrazy, and we wanna make this
world a better place, and I knoweach and every one of you wanna
be a better person.

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We can't do that if we're alwayssurrounded with a negative.
So surround yourself withloving, caring people that light
up your world.
And if you don't have somebody,I'll help you find somebody.
There are so many groups andcommunities out here of
inspiring people that wanna seepeople do good things and feel
good.

(08:26):
Go check in with yourselves thisweek and notice who you're
surrounding yourself with.
And what energy it's bringinginto your life.
As always, friends, go check inwith yourself and let those
sparks fly.
Thank you for tuning intoanother episode.
I hope today's story inspiredyou to embrace your own journey

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of growth and change.
Remember, transformation isn'talways easy, but it's always
worth it.
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(09:08):
love to hear it.
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Until next time, friends, gohave some fun and let those
sparks lie.