Welcome to the game to your life.

I'm Dave Anderson.

In this episode, I want to talk about how to deal with negative people.

Well, we all have some in our lives. Normally,

if you don't now, you probably will, and I'm not being negative. I'm just being realistic.

They're everywhere. Sometimes they are in your circle of friends. Sometimes they are people that

you work with that are on your team. Now, anybody can have a weak moment, right, where they're

a little bit down and

they express something less than optimistic. But what I'm talking about here is the type of person

where negativity is pervasive. It really dominates their mindset. In fact, when you think of them

and when you think of what they do and what they say, normally you say, well, that person is negative. They're never going to like it. They always find something wrong with it. They find the dark sliver in every bright sky, right? I mean, no matter what they look at, the glasses half empty. It's always been half empty. It'll always be half empty. In fact, it's chipped and it's poisoned. And so it's that type of person, that that just dominates. Negativity dominates them.

You know, it's like you look it up, the word negative. It talks about a person not desirable

or optimistic. Well, that says it, doesn't it? I mean, they're certainly not desirable.

So how much space do you give these people in your head? How many times do you invite them into your

life? Have you learned how to deal productively with them? Are you wasting a lot of time trying to

change them? Because that's not very likely. So we're going to talk about these things. This is a

realistic situation we all have to deal with. And so I'll say this, though. If you look up

the definition of attitude,

and I've done an episode on attitude called attitude is a choice, it says a settled way of thinking

reflected in one's behaviors. And so it's a settled way of thinking. So in other words, you get to

choose how you think. All right? And so you get to choose how you see the world. You get to choose how you see

the things around you. Is it a stumbling block or a stepping stone? And so this is why I don't really

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