The
people whom you have the most contact with and hang around will have either a positive
or negative implication on your levels of self-esteem
and confidence. We all know those people who are
positive, happy and joyful to be around. How do they make you feel?
Yes,
they make you feel the same! They can but zest into a boring atmosphere and can
fill the room with positive, can do vibes that has a knock on effect onto
everyone else. We also know of those people who could grumble
for everything! They never had the opportunities, they
are always putting people down, they don’t like others to be successful, they
are jealous and are negative thinkers - need I go on!
These
people drain your energy and bring you down to their level, miles away from the
level that YOU want to be operating on. Family members can be a lot like this sometimes, also but you can always choose your friends, you can never choose
your family! Many a times, people get stuck with jobs with organizations living
with negative, suppressive cultures that may affect a perfectly normal
individual.
So what
should you do to make sure that the people who you hang around with empower and
support what you stand for rather than bring you down all of the time?
1.
You have the power to choose
who you hang around with. Ideally you want happy, vibrant and positive people.
Choose cultures that are acceptable, positive and productive.
2.
If you have good friends who
are negative and yet you still want to hang around them, make a point of
letting them know how you feel – if they are a true friend they will respect
you for this. If they are negative from time to time just acknowledge that this
is what they are like and block out the negativity.
3.
The same can be said with
family. Your more mature family members have behaviours that have been conditioned for years and years and from different
eras. Appreciate where they have come from and as in number 2 above, elicit and
select the information that filters through to your brain.
Remember, that nothing has meaning in life except the meaning that
you give it. Make sure that your peace, satisfaction and performance is not
sinking for people around you or organizations you work with. (www.thegrowthevangelist.com )
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