Entrepreneurs thrive on positivity. Getting through the startup phase and developing your business is hard enough for a business owner, and maintaining a positive mindset helps mitigate negative energy and related stress. Turn that negativity into motivation and a resilient entrepreneurial spirit. Negative thoughts do not need to hold a place in your business and life. Use the opportunities to help develop insights and make decisions. As a successful entrepreneur, you’ll use what you learn during tough times and struggles to shape your view of the opportunity.
The long-term effects of negativity are detrimental to you and your business.
Negativity is a toxin that creates stress and health issues within your body and mind, and also within your business relationships.
Deal with it directly and eliminate the long-term harmful effects.
Take our advice.
10 essential reasons to walk away from negativity.
Negativity hurts.
You do not need the negativity of others added to your own struggle. That’s not the cycle you want to own. Updating your choices on where and how you spend your time doesn’t reflect badly on you. It’s not an effort to retreat, but rather an effort to get back on track. It’s important to know the difference because the positive track is incredibly meaningful in how it affects your personal well-being and the health of your business.
You are hard enough on yourself! Self-kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle – and in knowing that includes you.
2.) It’s you vs. you every day.
Negativity doesn’t need to play a part.
3.) Positivity drives you.
Surround yourself with positive people, and keep the momentum going.
Your positive mindset will get you through the tough times. You’ll seek opportunities and reasons to try again vs. giving up. All of the feedback won’t be positive, but that’s where knowing your business and determining when to move forward and when to pivot leads to company growth.
Let positivity continue to inspire positivity.
4.) You are inspired by the unpaved path.
Keep replacing negativity and doubt with your completely normal high level of positivity. Simply shut it down. It’s how you work. It’s how you look at your business. Keep it going.
When you operate with a positive forcefield around, you self-doubt isn’t in your vocabulary.
5.) Your work ethic and drive is part of who you are.
You know there are no short cuts. You know you need to work. Those who don’t have it in them don’t have it in them.
You aren’t them.
6.) You accept reality and work with the insights.
You do not wallow. Negativity as an entrepreneur is not what you’re about.
You work with fact-based data. Your goal is to bring a dream alive but it’s a business plan unfolding thanks to your vision, skillset, and effort. Not a shot in the dark.
7.) Persistence is one of your most valued traits!
Not unlike Thomas Edison. Ray Kroc.
or James Dyson while working on his 5127th prototype – the one that was finally it.
“If you are persistent you will get it if you are consistent you will keep it” ~ Harvey MacKay
8.) Negativity leads to paranoia.
When people sense negativity, they start to wonder what’s going on. They start to get paranoid, quiet, and often look inward. It’s difficult to maintain confidence and motivation in a negative workplace.
When you are paranoid you are less productive, more prone to errors, less likely to contribute. The more you take personally, the more your mind is affected, trust erodes, it affects your performance – and then you take it home with you.
9.) Negativity decreases productivity.
Building on #8: Negativity affects productivity by killing creativity and teamwork. It’s brutal. The fear of being criticized, put down, or worse yet – ignored – halts progress. When negativity grows, productivity decreases, and it hits your bottom line.
Nothing in your workplace becomes better as a result of negativity.
10.) Negativity creates a toxic workplace.
Self-development and the development of lasting, productive relationships is a much more pleasant and profitable situation vs. performance management.
Do not let unchecked negativity fester and breed.
As the customer. As the coach, professional, founder, operator, solution finder, competitor … No matter what your role was in the past, you have felt the effects of negativity.
As the entrepreneur and successful business person, you absolutely cannot afford it. Realize how much you have to lose and overcome negativity with your positive attitude. Nip it in the bud every time. If you don’t know what that means, go look it up and apply the learning.
You are your biggest investor. Do yourself proud. You got this.
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