How to Deal with Negativity in Your Life
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How to Deal with Negativity in Your Life-
This message is for ANY of you who may be going through a lifestyle change or struggle. Maybe you are trying to surround yourself with more positive people, maybe you have goals of changing your health and fitness, maybe you have goals of advancing in your career or building a business. I want to share with you right now that you will have people that try to bring you down. WHY? It’s a hard pill to swallow. When you better your life there are others around you who may not be happy with where they are at in their own life. There are two options for them. Raise themselves to a better being OR try to tear you down to their level. Unfortunately most will choose the latter and try to bring you down because it’s just easier than trying to lift themselves up.
Not so much now, but over the past 3 years I have been told many things about myself from others. The opinions of other people and what they felt I stood for. I got told that I must be “blue in the face” from constantly talking about my workouts, my great family, and talents. I got made fun of for making car magnets to advertise my business. As I built a Team Beachbody business I had so-called friends at work talking behind my back and you would hear them “sush” as I walked into the room. I had friends from work talk about Gabby’s and my relationship and how it would change as we became wealthy and had “fitter bodies”. I want to share this with you because many of you may deal with this at work, social settings, and possibly even at home and I want you to know that it is a reflection of them and not YOU.
So what can you do to deal with this in your life? I love to follow the council of Rick Warren in the Purpose Driven life when he shares below
“Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent. While your offender has probably forgotten the offense and gone on with life, you continue to stew in your pain, perpetuating the past. Listen: those who hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. Your past is past! Nothing will change it. You are only hurting yourself with your bitterness. For your own sake, learn from it, and then let it go.”
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