The more things I come into contact with and the more opportunities I deal with, the more I am required to deflect negativity. Negativity breeds in many people much more than positive energy. To be a truly effective person and not get bogged down through other people’s negativity, you have to learn how to deflect the negative.
It is always a tough thing that you have to coach yourself through mentally to make sure other people’s circumstances, issues, and drama don’t impact you in a negative way. Situation after situation that I deal with always brings out the opportunity for upside potential. But with that also comes an amazing amount of negativity.
Training people around you, not just coworkers but friends and family, to be positive is something that I think I have really learned how to do, especially in the last year, but more throughout my career. Negativity will drag you down and will make you want to always go to a dark place. Whereas, when you stay positive, you don’t let the negatives even phase you. You keep on moving.
Negative situations will impact you every single day if you let them. Deflecting them becomes really more of an art than a science because you have to let yourself be trained to not let the little things, the small things, the immaterial things that become negative phase you in any way. And once you learn to deflect the negative, you truly can be a more effective person and have a clearer mind as you go through life.