Staying positive around negative people

Posted on November 22, 2007
Filed Under lifestyle design, motivation, the mental game |

The excellent Zen Habits blog has a big post today about staying positive in the face of negative opposition. Basically, its a “how to” about eliminating the doubts that sabotage your dreams and goals:

Why? Because a doubt, as innocuous as it may seem at first, has a way of creeping its way into your subconscious, into the depths of your heart, like some kind of black and evil creature that has infiltrated your body. The doubt lingers at the back of your head, without you being aware of it, and will eventually conquer your dreams if you let it.

And when this happens, the doubt is more powerful than you realize. When you are making the tough decisions, like whether to apply for college or to go off to Hong Kong and pursue your dreams, your dreams will lose out, because of that doubt in the back of your head. When you think about yourself, your self-image will not be of that person you want to be, but the person that others want you to be.

Doubts will keep you in a job you hate, just because you’re afraid to go do what you really want to do. Doubts will keep you with a person who abuses you, because you don’t think you deserve better.

How to Doggedly Pursue Your Dreams in the Face of Naysayers @ Zen Habits

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