Keep people in your life who truly love you, motivate you, encourage you, enhance you, and make you happy. If you have people in your life who do none of these things, let them go.
~–Unknown–~
Have you ever met someone who just lights up a room when they walk into it? Their smile is so big and infectious, you just want to smile too. Or maybe you have a life-long friend who has always encouraged you, who has always took you higher, motivated you and supported your dreams? Aren’t these kind of friends wonderful?
The POSITIVE doers,
The POSITVE thinkers,
The POSITIVE life-livers.
Do you have some of these people in your life? Are you one for others?
On the flip side, have you ever met anyone who is 100% all the time negative? A simple question like, “How are you doing” gets you a 20-minute speech about everything that is wrong in their life. They tell you about their bad childhood, their unhappy teen and young adult life and continue on with how bad “life has been to them” for so many years. By the time you can get away from them, you’re either feeling very depressed or you want to drop to your knees and thank God for your many blessings.
At the start of 2015, I made a decision to not listen to any more negative commentary from people. I don’t mean that I’ll refuse to lend a listening ear when someone needs me or that I won’t be a shoulder for someone because I will.
No, what I mean is that life is too short to give someone spans of time for negativity. Especially, if they can’t find one thing to be positive about.
If someone blames their entire adult life on a bad childhood, I am not listening to them anymore. And I will make every effort to not be around them anymore. If someone blames their adult life on the fact that everyone in the universe has conspired against them or everyone is “mean” to them, I am not listening anymore and I will make every effort to stay away from them.
This may sound harsh to you. I hope it doesn’t, but it may. But I am important to me. My heart and soul are important to me. My dreams, my hopes, my daily feelings are important to me. And if people want to drag me down with them, they don’t care as much about me as I do. They gotta go. J
POSITIVITY is a mindset. Unfortunately, some people will never have that mindset. And they’ll never be the kind of people who can take you higher. You must surround yourself with people who want to move forward, people who motivate you, people who inspire you, people who encourage you. It’s true that happiness starts within, but if outwardly you are constantly being hammered with negativity, you are impacted. Don’t let that happen.
Be important to you. Take an inventory of the people you surround yourself with. Are you important to them? Do they 1) truly love you; 2) motivate you; 3) encourage you; 4) enhance you; or 5) make you happy? At least one of these?
If you have people in your life who do none of these, it’s time for some tough decisions.
Be important to you.
Charity & The Horse Mafia
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