The 9 Environments that Make Up Your Life

Srinivas Rao
10 min readMay 31, 2019

5 years ago, Jim Bunch, founder of The Ultimate Game of life, turned me on to a very simple idea that had a profound physical, mental, and financial impact on my life.

We are surrounded by environments. Everything you can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch is an environment that is either adding energy to your life or draining energy from your life.

When you view everything as environments, not just your physical space, but the people you talk to, the information you consume, the clothes you wear, and the food you eat , you develop both a heightened sense of awareness and sensitivity to the impact of those environments. You become ruthless about upgrading the quality of those environments.

1. Physical

When most of us think of environments, we think of our physical environment. This includes the spaces we live or work in, the cars we drive, the clothes we wear and even the devices we use.

  1. The Space you Live In

Shortly after I learned about the concept of environments from Jim Bunch, I stumbled upon Marie Kondo’s book *The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.* What appears on the surface to be a book about getting organized is really a book about…

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Srinivas Rao

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