Lewis HowesYour Personal 24/7 Greatness Coach

Some Relationships Aren't Good for You!

19 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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This content was created by Lewis Howes. This content was uploaded by Lewis Howes. This is a YouTube video titled "Some Relationships Aren't Good for You!" (created 2026-01-19) consisting of a solo monologue by Lewis Howes. It's a short self-development/motivational piece in which Howes discusses relationships and personal growth—arguing that the people around you either expand or limit your future, describing his own experience distancing from misaligned relationships, and advising listeners to set boundaries and invest in growth-oriented connections.

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The people around you are either expanding your future or limiting it. There is no neutral. You rise to the level of the people around you, or you sink to match them. At the start of my kind of business journey, no one knew who I was. So I needed to build lots of relationships to create opportunities. And for whatever reason I created, I thought, like, oh, because we're building a business relationship. We're also friends. And not everyone was my friend, even though they acted like friends. I tried to invest in certain relationships in certain ways to build friendships, because that's where I come from. And I realized that not all of them were in the same alignment or the same frequency. And that's okay. And it's not because they were bad, but I had to distance myself from certain people because we weren't growing in the same direction. It doesn't make me right or wrong or them right or wrong. Now, I stayed in those environments and in those relationships, I wasn't going to grow either, and neither would they. And that's okay. But I had to learn to be able to either distance myself or just create boundaries or just invest more in other people rather than that time in those individuals.