“What caused you to generate over $7.6 million in sales in just the first five months of this year but only $3.5 million in sales last year,” I asked.
He replied, “I didn’t realize what a downer my employee was on my attitude. What a negative drag on me! I didn’t want to deal with her. When she quit, a dark cloud lifted.”
“After she left, I had to step up my game, starting with my attitude that was in a funk. I used to spend days frustrated and mad at her, which stopped me from doing positive things.
“I had a choice: be positive and grateful or stay in a funk, which equaled less productivity. I chose to embrace my new freedom and move forward.
“Was I going to operate by myself or replace her? I decided I didn’t need a crutch nor did I need to hire anybody. Instead, I decided to have a better attitude.”
The reason he held onto his employee for so long is that he didn’t have her computer skills, which are essential in his business. So he leaned on her, although it was an ongoing struggle. She acted like she owned the business and he was her employee, even though he is a well-seasoned expert in his field!
“I’m way happier now. I changed from being needy, clutchy, clingy and dependent. My confidence is back.”
He continued by saying, “The Law of Attraction is real. Asking the universe is real.”
Life reflected back to him what was in his attitude and focus – lack and frustration or abundance and happiness.
“The difference between the last five months and the previous 18 months is a slow creep of frustration, despair and anger, which had weaved its web around me.
“Now I’m blessed with an abundance of opportunities because of a change in my current attitude, mindset and outlook.
He got his lesson about negative people dragging him down:
“Two weeks ago, I even fired a client who was disrespectful, unappreciative and not following my recommendations.”
After he explained the circumstances, it was clear that their business relationship had been headed for a miserable dead end. Now, not feeling needy for money or anything else, he no longer was willing to put up with the client’s attitude, which increasingly would’ve become an unproductive and unsatisfying investment of his own time and energy.
He learned his lesson about how negative people can drag him down and how it becomes a slippery slope that can leave a person hitting bottom wondering, “What just happened? How did I get here?”
Are you allowing negative people in your life? If so, what price are you paying for that choice? What are you learning?
It’s okay if you are. We all learn by discovering that a choice of action may not produce the results for which we hoped. However, you can make new choices. Again. And again…
You have options, such as a change in attitude, a change in people or circumstances.
Or maybe you’ll discover that there’s something about you that’s creating a downer for others.
Einstein is quoted to have said: “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
A common trap is to expect solutions to come in a way using familiar thinking, even though that thinking is what created our problems. We sometimes look for validation that we’re right instead of being willing to receive new ideas, tools and insights.
Howard Hestand, a client who improved his portfolio 80% in three months, expressed his shift in thinking like this. Although he’s referring to my Soulgoals program, I mention it because these are key elements for anyone looking to change for the better.
“This course taught me a different way of thinking, how to listen to myself, be more observational about the ego and set effective goals and intentions.”
To solve problems, regardless if you’ve been “downed” or the downer, the way out is being open to new approaches. As Einstein implies, the new thinking will be different from how we believe life works.
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