Discover Your Inner Champion It often can take a lot of focusing your inner thought life in order to deal with the negative thinking around you.
However, if you can conquer your inner thought life, you will go a long way to being a winner in life.
Joyce Meyer has written two excellent resources - Battlefield of the Mind, and Power Thoughts - two essentials that you will want to read if you want to succeed in conquering your own thought processes.
You can master your own thoughts - there is the old proverb that dictates: if you want to conquer the mountain, first you have to conquer yourself.
Counter Negativity With A Blast of Refreshment Do you hear a coworker complaining yet again? Gently question the person if they realize they are being negative, and then offer a quick change of topic to a good report about something you have heard.
When you offer this, offer the same thing again and again.
Keep countering complaints and negativity with good news and good reports.
Leave Work at Work When you go home, your home is your sanctuary.
Some people have found an effective way of transitioning to home mode is to go to the gym or to go to work on the way home, and offload all their stress, so that they are not bringing it with them or carrying the mental load home.
Put a Mental Lid Over Yourself Joel Osteen has a brilliant book he has written called Every Day a Friday - it is a brilliant book - and offers some sound advice you can find in it for keeping positive and upbeat.
Particularly in a work situation, you can put up a mental lid over yourself, and refuse to let people dump their mental garbage onto you.
Let them go and offload it somewhere else.
If somebody offers you rubbish, there is absolutely no reason you have to take it onboard.
Find Something Positive Regarding That Person Maybe you were once a negative person yourself.
When you are around negative people, perhaps they trigger some bad memories in you of the way you used to be so negative.
Instead, be grateful for that person, that they are helping you to develop compassion, tolerance and a helpful heaping of mercy.
Perhaps they haven't developed the capacity for caring that you have got now, or they have a lot going on in their lives that they are not sure how to deal with.
In either case, or if they are just a negative person, realize that not every single person is going to like you, nor should you expect that.
You just act with integrity, respond with positive comments, keep your own business to yourself, and get on with your life, you have chosen to enjoy it - be thankful for those people who have reminded you of your decision to have and enjoy your life to the full.