The outcome of our lives begins within us with our child within.

Stages Community is in the weekly living room of the academy.

If we want to see a preview of our future, look at who we are hanging out with.

This isn’t some moral statement about our peer groups, it’s more of a vibrational or elevational recovery statement.

You see, we live in literal Recovery. That means that we become what we think and what we think is greatly determined by who we spend the most time with.

Do you spend time with people who are constantly trashing your ideas? If so, then after time, you begin to believe their doubt and their fear; not because their doubt and fear are true, but because we are creatures of habit and our subconscious mind begins to absorb what we hear, especially the feedback from people we love and spend a lot of time with. And if you start to believe their doubt and the echo of their parental voice, then soon you will begin to take action from that belief in doubt and BAM – that belief in doubt manifests into reality. Not because it’s true, but because the belief became your dominant thought pattern and that thought pattern influenced your actions and your actions produced the outcome.

The outcome of our lives begins within us with our child within.


If we water ourselves with doubt, then we think doubtful thoughts, take doubtful action and our lives become a living testament to and proof of our belief. Then, what many of us do is take this “proof” and use it to further justify our initial belief. But we see, what we’re missing this whole time is the fact that our initial thoughts of doubt and fear are what has created our outcome. We unknowingly participated in our own demise.



But, this can be prevented by hanging with the proper recovery community of people studying the stages. Let us spend time with people who uplift us, who encourage us towards our meditations and who challenge our thought patterns. Let us not surround ourselves with people who always agree with us, but rather people who support our growth by challenging our beliefs and helping us break through to new mental ground so that our lives may be enriched as a by-product of our studies.



Look around. Who are you spending time with? And more importantly, who are you believing? If you have a recovery dream, do you believe people who are living their recovery dreams and thus know the TRUTH about what’s possible, or do you take advice from people who aren’t living their recovery and thus will tell you it’s not possible?



Who you spend time with and who you believe are major factors in determine whether you are successful or not. Our aim should be to spend time with people who are loving, who believe in us, who challenge us to go to the next level and who inspire us. Life is far too short to hang with people who are always negative and who want you to stay bitter and pissed off like them. It takes a lot of humility to admit when we’re wrong and to grow past our limiting beliefs. Let’s surround ourselves with stagers who support our growth, not necessarily the way we want, but most certainly the way we need.



Who are you spending your time with?