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Hello. I’m Yasui, the president of a one-person company mainly engaged in inspections of high-pressure gas facilities.
We’ve launched under a new structure.
The road ahead won’t be easy. And when it’s time to withdraw, I’ll withdraw decisively. If you hesitate, you’re done—so I don’t entertain ideas about sunk costs.
Someone once said that knowing when to pull out is everything.
That said, there are good things too.
We re-contracted and rented the warehouse previously used by the predecessor. There’s a small office space there, and I worked from it.
Wow—I get so much done.
Up until now, I’d been working from a home office. It worked, but I wouldn’t say it was an environment where I could truly focus.
It really struck me how much we are influenced by our environment.
The environment around you. The people around you. Your daily life.
I finally understood why people say that human society itself is an environment.
They say you are the average of the five people closest to you.
If you place yourself in a good environment, you move in that direction.
Place yourself in a poor one, and that’s where you’ll head.
This drifted a bit from the topic of workplace environment, but I’ve come to believe you should never underestimate the power of environment.
And speaking of environment, let me share how my wife saved me.
I wasn’t a good person to begin with.
Aggressive. Twisted. Self-centered.
But after marrying my wife and living together, I think I began—almost unconsciously—to realize those traits weren’t good.
Little by little, like blood slowly flowing through tiny capillaries, my way of thinking began to change.
Of course, change doesn’t happen overnight, so there were times I made her cry. (Not violence, just to be clear.)
I struggled a lot, and I read many books along the way.
In what had once been a world revolving entirely around my own ego, I learned to accept other people’s opinions, ideas, and values.
Being able to change my environment has had profound meaning in my life.
Meeting my wife and children transformed my life in a big way.
Now I can see that when the “average of the five people around me” changed, my environment changed as well.
Marriage forces a change in the people you meet and live with.
That shift in environment saved me.
Where you place yourself matters.
I want to live more consciously about how—and where—I spend my time.
Thank you for reading to the end.
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