Why Nasty Opinions From Haters Are Fuel for Your Fire

Refocusing our drive to succeed.

Without a doubt, I’m sure you can remember a time when someone treated you like you didn’t exist. It made you so upset you didn’t even know how to respond.

In a burst of anger, the immediate response in your head was, “I’ll show them!”

But here’s what we’re doing in the process.

Most of the time (if not all the time), how we respond to the opposition of other people represents a desire to ensure that those who doubt us never do so again.

We want to get revenge on people who treat us like trash.

But what if there was a better way to respond to that kind of treatment that tastes even sweeter than revenge?

The is remembering that what you do with their opinions about you ultimately determines the health of your pursuits.

It’s hard to forget someone who doesn’t believe in you. They can become like gnats to your mind, annoying the life out of you.

But the game-changer is when you believe in yourself more than they refuse to believe in you.

The process of overcoming this hurdle changes everything.

Instead of focusing on our own lives and what we need to get done, we spend most of our time thinking about them.

If we aren’t careful, we’ll confuse revenge with motivation — two completely different worlds.

I started to be motivated by what others were saying about me because I realized the benefits of doing so. Why?

I wasn’t getting any stronger by focusing on the doubters. I was actually hurting…

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