Positive People Attract! Negative People Repel!

“Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” – Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

Your life will be happier if you increase your positive communication and decrease your negative communication.

Your communication with others can positively or negatively affect them. Below are five positive ways and five negative ways to communicate.

Positive Ways Your Communication Affects Others

• Encourage others to reach for their goals

• Help others accomplish something they couldn’t accomplish alone

• Tell others about resources that could help them

• Connect a person with another person you know will help them

• After giving advice, follow up with person

Negative Ways Your Communication Affects Others

• Discourage others from reaching their goals

• Telling a person he/she is not smart enough to accomplish his/her goals

• Not telling a person about a key resource that could help him/her reach his/her goals (communication by omission)

• Intentionally advising another person down a path you know will not work

• Because you are jealous of the other person, you try to sabotage his/her idea by saying his/her idea does not have a chance of succeeding

Be Positive in a Sometimes Negative World

Animals don’t have the intellect to choose a different course of action in their lives. However, you do. You can’t control the situations life throws at you, but you can always choose how you react to them.

Sometimes I hear people blaming someone else for causing him/her to do something. It is a fact that no one can make you do anything unless you agree to do it. Even though your communication has an effect on others, those others always have a choice whether to accept or reject what you say.

We have enough negativity in the world. Don’t add to it!

We are all seeking happiness in this world. I have always found the people that are the happiest are the ones that are positive with themselves and with others.

So this coming week, I want you to make a special effort to be positive with yourself and others and see what happens.

As the old saying goes, “It doesn’t matter how far you fall. It only matters how high you bounce!”

Call to Action

• Make a point this week to say something positive to everyone you meet; EVERYONE!

• Encourage everyone you meet this week to follow his/her dreams

• Actively help at least one person this week to reach their goals

“I’m a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.” -Roger Federer