Freer Than Ever Before
Accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. Eleanor Roosevelt Add to Mrs. Roosevelt’s advice: Watch whoever comes and meet certain folks fearlessly and with the best you have to give. This last of three Eleanor posts about courage offers insights and remedies for those who would trumple others to make themselves feel better. As Tara Mackey author of Cured by Nature and founder of The Organic Life says, people exist who will, “get you stuck in the past and focused on the negative, and in that mentality, you can’t move forward and you can’t succeed.” Antidote: First, see those troubled folks for what they are. Here are sixteen types, including Meddlers, Control Freaks and Perpetual Victims. Then, Set boundaries. Realize it’s not your job to save them. Treat your separation like the breakup it is. Read All Seven Tips. When breakup isn’t possible, as with co-workers, here are: Tips for Dealing with Toxic People and Dealing with 10 Types of Difficult Co-Workers In meeting gossips, narcissists, the passive aggressive, blamers and other unpleasant people along with the challenges they present, remember, The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. — Eleanor Roosevelt Succeed and Soar! Eleanor’s Insights Collection Succeed and Soar’s “Eleanor’s Insights” series is illustrated with photographs of ‘wild places.’ Art is available as prints, framed and on canvas as well as on journals, greeting cards, weekender bags, shower curtains, puzzles and much more. Shop Here