ITL161: When to Eliminate the Negative People from Your Life
In the Loop with Andy Andrews
Matt Lempert
4.9 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2014
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, I discuss when to eliminate negative people from your life.
We hear that we need to eliminate negative people from our lives.
- Yet, if we know that we are consistently negative, we certainly hope everybody is not eliminating us.
What if Jones eliminated negative people from his life?
- He would have certainly eliminated me.
- But Jones didn’t have to consider dropping me from his life.
- He had moved so far beyond where I was that I had no influence on him at all.
- His challenge with me was figuring out how to say things to me so that I could understand them and so they would resonate with me.
When I was living under the pier, I really needed to eliminate the negative influences in my life.
- I had to determine which people always acted negatively.
- If they were both looking and thinking, I could be friends with those people safely.
- There are people at a very high level of success, and I’m looking to spend more time with them and watch them carefully.
- There are also some people who are just beginning that journey. Those people would not affect me in a negative way, and maybe I could be a Jones to them.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective |
| 0:06.5 | with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. |
| 0:10.4 | Now here's your host, David Loy. |
| 0:12.9 | Hi and welcome to In The Loop with Andy Andrews. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm your host, David Loy. |
| 0:17.2 | Andy, thanks again for joining us. |
| 0:19.4 | We're happy to have you here. |
| 0:20.2 | I am glad to be here, buddy. And so I am glad you're here, too. Well, excellent. I'm going to |
| 0:26.7 | brag on you for a second because again... Oh, wait, let me get my one on the phone. Maybe she can hear you. |
| 0:32.8 | It's just odd to me how many different successful, not just any random team, but successful sports teams |
| 0:42.8 | are using your books and your messages. I don't know what our legal bounds are here, but I can |
| 0:52.9 | say for sure, without saying names, |
| 0:56.2 | that both of the World Series teams from this year. |
| 0:58.9 | Yeah, wasn't that cool? |
| 1:00.2 | That's the first time I've had both sides of the conflict. |
| 1:04.2 | That was a little odd, I'm sure, because you're balancing. |
| 1:07.9 | Either way, though, you came out a winner. |
| 1:09.7 | Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. |
| 1:11.3 | And it's looking as though the odds are pretty good right now as we are recording today |
| 1:16.8 | that at least one of the teams that will be in the college football playoff will be a university |
| 1:24.2 | that is using one or more of your books. |
| 1:26.5 | It could end up being, it could end up being four schools, but yeah, it could. It could. That's still a possibility, but, I, you know, to me, to me, it's exciting to me because I love sports. Yes. I think sports are such a great metaphor for life. And, and so I, I just, I love that. And so, yeah, it's exciting. |
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