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

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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Music by: Jason and Ashley Scheufler
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Transcript

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Hey friends. Welcome to the Enter Spark podcast. I'm your host, Casey Caton. If you're looking to hear stories of transformation and personal growth, this podcast is for you. My guest and I will be sharing those sparking moments that has changed the mental living a more fulfilling authentic life. I'm so excited for you to hear each unique story. So sit back, relax, and let's get started.

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Hey friend. Welcome back to the Enter Spark podcast. I'm your host, Casey Taton. On this shower sprinkle, I wanna talk about the five people you surround yourself with. Are the five people you surround yourself up with. Are they lighting you up? Are they sucking you dry? Are they sucking your gas tank and all your energy dry, or are you leaving that conversation? Filled, lit up with joy and excitement and ready to conquer the day. There are true facts on who you spend the most time with and how it makes you feel.

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So let's dig into this for a second.

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I wanna talk about who you surround yourself with. And I'm talking about the five people you spend the most time with. That could be anyone from your parents, your kids, your friends. A lot of times you spend the most time with people you work with. whatever you're doing, who are you spending the most time with? Have heard this about three, at least three times this week, and I believe in the power of three that if you hear something three times, you should probably start paying attention to it. And it was all from different podcasts, different coaches and different people. I was around and it was talking about, you know, we are the power of the five people we spend the most time with. There's research saying you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. The concepts suggest that the people who surround our, we surround ourselves with greatly influence our thoughts, behaviors, and ultimately shape who we become. That's really powerful. If you think about it, it's true when you're around your best friend, a lot you, I mean, females can relate to this, sometimes you start dressing alike. Sometimes you can start finishing people's sentences. You start acting alike. You start doing things alike, and it's just because you're surrounded with them, you're surrounded by them a lot. But here's something else to think about When you're surrounding yourself with these people, they also influence our behavior, our attitudes, and how we feel. This week I recently was sitting around thinking, how am I feeling when I am doing things, when I'm in certain situations? And I did notice it and my mom and I actually had a conversation this week about it, about different things that I've done this week. And I am so blessed to be in so many 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, every time this happens, I feel like it's around the same person. And she said, yeah. I know you really enjoy doing that, but it seems to be a constant thing that every time you're around these people, you are drained, you're exhausted. Your energy is just different. When other people are noticing it, that definitely means it's making an impact in your everyday life. And I don't know about you, but I started paying attention to it because I wanna be the best version of me and I wanna be surrounded by people who want nothing, but to see me grow and succeed. And do good in life and enjoy life and have fun. We all have goals and you want those people who want you to rise, and that's not saying you can't have a bad day, and these people aren't there to support you on your bad times. It's just saying, how do you truly feel when this person walks away from you? Do you leave feeling energized or do you leave feeling drained, like start paying attention to your posture? Are you slumped over? Are you feeling exhausted? Are you tired or do you leave either hanging up the phone or getting off a zoom call or just running into someone? And that feeling like feeling lit up and inspired where it's like, yes, I'm gonna go conquer the world. That's how it should be. The people that you surround yourself with matter. So start paying attention to how am I acting? How am I feeling? Do they truly support me? And I know sometimes it's hard because sometimes it could be a family member, sometimes it could be somebody who lives with you. So then you have to start adjusting your boundaries, and that's a whole nother topic. That's a whole nother podcast about setting boundaries, it's just really, truly noticing how do I wanna fill and how am I allowing myself to fill when I leave that person, when I have a conversation with that person, when that person's name even comes to my mind, what do I think about? Is it something positive or do I instantly go down that rabbit hole of like, oh, they're gonna complain about this. Their days are horrible, their weeks are horrible. Yeah, we all have bad days, but that'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 this together. We caught you, we caught you, sister, let's go. Yes, you can go cry about that for a little bit, but let's go. We wanna feel good and cheer each other on. So I really encourage you just this week to just go notice who you spend the most time with and how does that make you feel, and how are you allowing it to make you feel? Because we all have control of how we feel and what we allow in. Sometimes we don't always have control over. People we spend time with. If it's someone you work with or someone you're, you know, you live with, but you do have the control to not allow them to drain your energy. So go out this week, look at who you're surrounded by, or sit here and think about your friends. How do those interactions go? Truly set and fill it in your body. Like do you get excited to call them? Do you get excited to go do something with them or even hear their name? Because that person is just uplifting and encouraging and supporting. Take a look this week, friends. Everywhere I went, I was just hearing these signs and I just knew that I needed to, if I'm feeling something, I wanna share it with you all. So just check in with yourself and see how are you feeling, and who are you surrounding yourself with. Make sure you have someone that's uplifting you. As always, I leave you with this today. Go be around your people, around your family, whoever you're around, and truly check in with yourself when you're with them and think about how you feel when you walk away. The stats on it are ridiculously crazy, and we wanna make this world a better place, and I know each and every one of you wanna be a better person. We can't do that if we're always surrounded with a negative. So surround yourself with loving, 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 and communities out here of inspiring people that wanna see people do good things and feel good. Go check in with yourselves this week and notice who you're surrounding yourself with. And what energy it's bringing into your life. As always, friends, go check in with yourself and let those sparks fly.

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Thank you for tuning into another episode. I hope today's story inspired you to embrace your own journey of growth and change. Remember, transformation isn't always easy, but it's always worth it. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe. Share it with a friend, and leave a review. If you found something that sparked you in this episode and may spark a friend, I encourage you to go share with them. If you have your own story you would like to share, I would love to hear it. So please reach out to me. Until next time, friends, go have some fun and let those sparks lie.