I have seen it repeatedly; people who allow their negative outlook on life to sabotage their lives and careers. When you allow a negative frame of mind to dictate the outcome of your life, you allow yourself to miss out on the best things in life. Also, having a negative outlook can destroy close relationships which, in turn, can sabotage your opportunities for career advancement. Here are some key points that can prevent you from wasting your career by not allowing your negativity to destroy or sabotage your life and/or career.

Don’t let your negativity make you feel like you’re inferior to your co-workers. Never underestimate yourself. Never think that you got your position due to luck. Never think that you are out of your league when facing your competition. Always know that people are people and nothing more. All people put their pants on one leg at a time. Always know that if it’s possible for someone else, it’s possible for you. Never let anyone take over the definition of who you are; only you know

There are things that you will want to take away from what I just shared with you. Treat these different scenarios as stepping stones to higher consciousness to learn something new. Despite everything, you have probably contributed many things to the ideas and/or projects of your co-workers that someone else would not have thought of. So, learn to pat yourself on the back and learn to love yourself.

You will want to avoid meeting with the negative entities that you currently discuss with on a day-to-day basis. Let your negative co-workers cook in their own misery. Stay as far away from them as possible. And always remember that pain is inevitable but being miserable is a choice. Studies have found that witnessing insolence in the morning can disrupt and/or sabotage the rest of the day. Know that, you don’t have to let this kind of thing happen in the first place.

Now, there comes a time when you have to let your co-workers deal with their own feelings in their own way. Make sure you stay away from other people’s negativity. You must learn to stop adopting other people’s problems. Let’s face it, we all have problems, but we don’t have to overload our plate with additional problems that have no positive impact on our lives. Never bite off more than you can chew. You’ll be better off if you do.

If you want to change your negative outlook on life to a positive one, you’ll want to learn to count your blessings and remember everything you have to be thankful for. Being truly thankful and appreciative of living in such a great country as the United States is truly a blessing in itself. And you should always know that when you think you have it bad, someone else has it worse. So be positive and stay positive!