People around you may try to pull you down as you grow, driven by jealousy and fear that your progress highlights their own lack of purpose. They want to keep you mediocre to protect their comfort. Recognize these dynamics to avoid the distractors.
Let me tell you this. You'll notice that as you begin to grow and as you begin to improve and as you begin to apply yourself to fulfill the destiny for your life, you'll notice that certain people around you are gonna be uncomfortable with that. Maybe you have certain health goals, financial goals, ministry goals, business goals. Maybe you wanna get married. Maybe you wanna have kids. Whatever the goal may be, you just wanna grow as a person. And here's what you're gonna notice that's gonna start happening is that the individuals around you are gonna begin to become uncomfortable with your growth. Why? Because the application of your skills, the giving of yourself to the bettering of yourself, the focus that you have reminds them of the focus that they lack. The goals that you set and the goals that you actually accomplish remind them of the goals that they've forgotten about and therefore the goals that they haven't accomplished. So rather than being inspired by you, they become jealous of you and try to pull you down and keep you on their level. Why? Because they want to keep their surroundings comfortable. People who lack purpose don't like change because that change reminds them that they're running out of time. And so they try to keep you the same. They try to keep you mediocre.
