How Negativity Can Always Stop Your Progress
By: Andre L. Vaughn
Tags: Life Lessons, Productivity, Success, Entrepreneurship, Life

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A positive mindset is a great thing to have daily to uplift yourself and others. No one benefits from negativity or how it can subdue your progress in any situation.

Looking deep into our lives, one must who is surrounding me that can bring more of a positive spin as opposed to negativity in one’s life? To be quite frank, negativity can be a mainstay in any life if you let it consume you and stop your progress to reaching more of your goals and achievements than you think.

Lacking the proper mindset to move forward towards a desired result is something that takes effort. Surrounding yourself by awesome people that are like-minded can be a great thing to you and your mindset.

When someone is being negative, oftentimes they’re doing it because of some reason that has nothing to do with you. Those are usually the people that you really don’t want to be around or have a meaningful relationship with.

I will show how negativity can be a burden and get in the way of moving forward in life and your daily routine.

Self Limited Beliefs

Life provides us with many emotions and no matter how confident that you might be, self-limiting beliefs can be a negative thing. Everyone has doubts when throughout life especially when trying to get something accomplished.

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Getting down on yourself no matter what the situation is can be a natural occurrence with anyone no matter who they are or what their persona might be.

If you’re trying to accomplish a goal and you reach a roadblock doubting yourself, self-limiting beliefs could be the reason. We all have that little angel on one shoulder and the proverbial devil on the other shoulder giving us conflicting information about our next move.

A positive mindset to the contrary can feed us great things and give encouragement to keep us going. The devil on the shoulder that’s putting in way more work than the angel on the other shoulder.

The devil on one shoulder is telling you that it can’t be accomplished but at some point, you have to stop listening to it because of the negative energy that it creates.

Fear of Learning or Furthering Education

We all know the one person that doesn’t like to learn for one reason or another. The person that’s stuck in their ways and just can’t seem to get their feet out the quicksand to learn something new.

It could be a common element that may or may not be true with you personally but you probably can relate because we all know someone like that. Sometimes learning something new can be a great thing and it can advance you in a lot of different ways whether it’s a relationship, new skill for a job or just something that could get you what you want in life.

I had to do things to further my education too and I’m not just talking about school or college or anything like. I learned how to code, write tables and queries in a database better, build websites, etc.

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I learned as much as possible because I knew the path that I wanted to take to be successful so I have to embrace learning new skills.

Getting better daily using free tools such as YouTube, Google and iTunes and Stitcher for listening to audio podcasts can help you further your education for Free!

The fear of furthering education or just learning any tactical thing can be a negative burden towards moving forward as well.

Making Constant Excuses

At some point, we’ve all made excuses in one form or another. It may help to come to grips and get it out of your system as soon as possible. Making continual excuses can add an abundance of negativity in your life.

You can definitely stunt the growth of just about anything because making excuses is the easiest thing to do.

Excuses are very easy to make and don’t require a lot of time but do sometimes require energy which is mainly wasted and unwanted. Think about how great things are when you don’t make steady explanations?

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Some people are so caught up into making excuses that it’s the fabric of their existence. They don’t even realize the extent of what they’re doing and usually those same people really don’t care.

Are you one of those people who make constant excuses that drain off negative energy? It’s not too late to make a change in the right direction.

Stuck In Their Ways

We are all stuck in our ways on something but the difference is some of us have the ability to recognize our faults. Generally, we can get out of situations but at the same time some of us just can’t because of stubbornness.

I’ll give an example of being stuck in your ways: eating too many harmful foods. There has been so much research done on for health and wellness. And we know that one of the huge things that cause diseases is the food we consume.

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In a lot of ways, it’s more harmful to eat a cheeseburger that it is to smoke cigarettes but it doesn’t stop us because we want that satisfaction of the food because it tastes so good.

If this is something that’s in your daily or weekly diet and you just cannot remove it, then you might be stuck in your ways. Do you cherish your life or will you keep eating burgers every other day from one fast food restaurant to the next?

Always Complaining

Everyone complains about something whether it is intentional or apart of our fabric. There’s no way you can go through life without being dissatisfied with something whether it’s a product, your local salon or even customer service at your favorite restaurant.

We can likely agree that everyone has a complaint somewhere along the line. But it’s the person that’s ALWAYS complaining that is extremely irritating.

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The reality is that the “Complainer” sees it as an escape from other internal issues where he or she lacks and can’t recognize that the problem is them. The one thing that we find very hard to do in life is to look in the mirror embrace blame or better yet accountability.

I truly believe that some people rather not face their inner fears and admit to being wrong about something. There’s a difference between a legitimate complaint and a constant one that shows negativity that keeps you from moving forward.

Using Failure As The Reason To Quit

Most people never reach their full potential, accomplish goals, and definitely halt their progress because they use failure as a reason to quit. If you look at failure as an opportunity to get back up to continue, then your chances of reaching a goal is a lot better.

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Quitting is so easy to do, it requires zero effort and it’s very convenient. So many people fail because it can be a difficult task to believe in ourselves enough to think that we can actually accomplish something of value.

Stop using failure as the reason to quit and keep moving in the direction of gratitude and positivity. You are much closer to a goal when you fall because of negativity and get back up than you were before.

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