Article Contributed by Dr. Joey Faucette
Positive productivity is more difficult for most business persons these days. Persevering and achieving your business dreams in the midst of a negative world is increasingly challenging. The uncontrollable negatives from bombings to an unfamiliar economy that just won’t correct assault us daily.
How do you productively achieve your dreams today?
Here are 3 Keys to Positive Productivity Today:
Give Attention to Positive Thoughts
When you receive negative news, acknowledge your emotional reaction. Disappointment, anger, frustration, and other emotions must be processed to avoid blocking your emotional intelligence development.
However, do so quickly. Give yourself a little time to experience those emotions. Then flush them. Yes, multiple flushes are required sometimes. Do it and move on. Now.
As you flush quickly, you create room in your mind for what you can do to redirect the negative news. You focus on what you can control and influence, refusing to rent space in your head to what is beyond your reach.
Give attention to positive thoughts that are actionable.
Give Attention to Positive People
When you receive negative news, there typically is a messenger. If it’s technology-driven, cut it off. If it’s human, thank them and excuse yourself.
There are negative persons who enjoy delivering bad news. If there’s too much good news, they create negativity.
I call them Eeyore Vampires.
Their mantra is “It’ll never work.” They suck positive attention from you even when away from work trying to love what you do with those you love.
Treat Eeyore Vampires like they have a contagious disease and you’ll catch it.
Give your attention to positive people. Those persons who bring out the best in you, who have your best interest at heart, and who ask questions like, “How may I best serve you?”
Give Attention to Positive Outcomes
Each of us experiences outcomes that fall short of our expectations regardless of how hard we work or how much we prepare. When your negative news is of this kind, remind yourself of a previous experience when you exceeded your expectations; when you succeeded.
Celebrate that experience once more. Give attention to sustaining that celebrative attitude. Tell yourself, “If I did it once, I’ll do it again.”
Most likely, that positive experience was the accumulation of previous learning experiences of “bad news” like the current one. Reliving that success guides you to the next.
Give attention to positive thoughts, people, and outcomes and productively achieve your dreams today.
About the Author
Dr. Joey Faucette is the #1 Amazon best-selling author of Work Positive in a Negative World (Entrepreneur Press), Work Positive coach, & speaker who helps business professionals increase sales with greater productivity so they leave the office earlier to do what they love with those they love. Discover more at www.ListentoLife.org.