people will always have something negative to say.
Are you one of those people who possess a positive outlook on life?
Even if you are..... it might be a good idea to avoid negative and pessimistic people, especially those who are critical of your big dreams and goals.
Even if most of us try to avoid negativity in our own minds, what we speak of and what we write, it has a way of sometimes entering our conscious mind and also our subconscious mind.
So when difficulties and smaller setbacks arise it's natural to begin to wonder if your non-supportive friends and critics weren't right after all.
Life offers us plenty of things to be negative about and sometimes if feels like life is trying to beat us all down. So the more we can avoid negative people the better off we will be.
We need all the positive thoughts and images that we can get in order to fight the never ending stream of negativity and pessimism that is being thrown at us on a daily base. Some of the nicest and most helpful people can be very negative and that makes them even more dangerous than the negative person that is angry and nasty all the time.
Negativity can sneak up on you and it can do it's damage to you before you knew what hit you. In fact negativity, complaining and pessimism often comes from the people closest to us. Particularly family members can be hard to deal with. A spouse, friend or co-worker offering advice may be well meaning, but his/her observations and conclusions can still be wrong.
Constructive criticism and advice from the right person can be worth a fortune, while ill-intended criticism from the wrong person can do more that tear us down. It can damage our self-esteem and prevent us from pursuing our goals and the ultimate vision for our life.
Be careful who you take constructive criticism or advice from. Do you respect this person handing out the criticism? Does he/she have their own life in order? If the answer is no, just thank the person for their advice. Delete their advice from your mind and walk away.
Sometimes the agendas of others is simply to be able to discourage us from trying to do something that they themselves have been unable to do. Some people just love to discourage others. These kinds of people are very bad news because they will try to chip away at our self-confidence.
Someone who always criticizes others is just an unhappy person. They thrive on the opportunity to be able to pull others down to their level. If you are not careful this kind of person will portray themselves as your best friend and mentor and once you have confided in them about your life they will fool you to believe that they themselves are well adjusted and problem free and soon they will make you psychologically dependent on them.
Ill-intended criticism from the wrong party can become a huge obstacle in your life and in your pursuit of your big dream.
Remember that the only way to avoid criticism is to do nothing, say nothing or be nothing.
- Aristotle
The more successful you will become, the more you will be criticized.
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