Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org, and in this video, I'm going to talk about how to deal with

difficult and toxic people. So let's talk about how to deal with people in your life who are bringing you down.

These are people that I call either difficult or I like the word toxic. So what's the secret with dealing with these types of people

because these types of people can destroy your life? There's really a spectrum, a spectrum of

toxicity of other people in your life.

Sometimes you have mildly toxic people who are just more like an annoyance or

frustration, but then it can get so bad on the other end of the spectrum that it really gets into

abusive territory just like very dysfunctional territory and one of the things

that's really key to understand about your life is that you are like a sponge.

And no matter how personally developed you are, how successful you are, how happy you are, how optimistic you are.

If you are,

if you are living in a negative environment,

whether it's a negative physical environment,

but here we're talking about negative relationships.

If you're living in this kind of negative relationship environment, then this is robbing you of your potential, and it's basically making you miserable, and these people that are dragging you down because they're constantly feeding you with negativity and pessimism and limiting beliefs

and maybe anger or other things and these are rubbing off on you right because you're this

sponge so you're

soaking it all in and it's affecting your psyche and you have to work really really

hard to counteract these effects so in this video what I want to do is I want to cover some of the ways that you can go about

handling these kinds of people and give you different techniques and strategies.

Basically, my philosophy on this is really simple.

It's the philosophy that life is too short

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