I just got off the phone from a great conversation with my friend, La Shawn Sutton. We were discussing how negativity can happen to a person but not dictate how far one goes in the world. Case in point, when I was a kid, my life was filled with negativity in my household. Single parent household, welfare, food stamps, and a lot of despair. Even though I knew there were things in my life that my mother couldn’t control, certain negative events just happened to us all the time.
For some reason, I knew that these negative events did not make me who I was though. Somehow, instinctively, I knew that I was better than these negative events. Many times, we get mired in the negativity and think that negative situations define who we are and what our future holds. It does NOT. The biggest thing to do is to focus on positive actions that will lead to positive results in your life. When I was a kid, I began to focus on running, passing, and throwing the football. Even though this was small, I did it every single day to cope with any negative thing happening in my life and/or neighborhood.
So, whatever it is that you may be dealing with, find a positive focal point and stay there. It can be something really small but find it and focus on it. Use this positive action to uplift you and pull you out of any negative situation. Do not listen to any negative people or talk around you. I learned to block out any negative talk and even negative self talk and start to focus on positive people and positive self talk. I had to do this to begin to increase my belief in myself.
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