This is a Glass Box Media Podcast.

Welcome everyone. I'm Kevin Miller and this is the Ziegler show,

founded by the grandfather of Inspiration himself Zig Zig Zigler.

Our focus here is you and your personal development.

The way to have more tomorrow is to become more today.

So we bring you the best of today's world influencers and discover how we can all apply new and classic methodologies of personal growth to our lives.

In this episode we look at how to fend off negative people.

What do you do when confronted with a negative person,

whether they're just spouting negativity to or around you or outright attacking you.

Unless you live and work alone and are a veritable hermit,

negative people are just unavoidable.

In this episode, I play an impacting message from Zig Ziegler that does a profound job of highlighting the consequences of unleashed negativity, unstopped negativity.

From it I posed this question to the Ziegler audience. How do you cope

when you're on the receiving end of negativity so you don't become negative yourself? The

responses ranged from runaway far and fast and

avoid at all cost to striving to understand the other person and help bring them

around to a more positive outlook. Many cited the need for compassion on hurting people.

But what seemed to bubble to the surface was the necessity for us all to be emotionally confident in order to helpfully deal with

negative people. Tom Ziegler joined me for the discussion and actually charged us

to become emotional ninjas. I invite you to join me in

these weekly discussions by the way just find and friend me on Facebook at

agent k Miller.com and I thank you guys for listening to the show and

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