Spoil the spoilers and send your friends the booty

Focusing only on the difficult people in your life drains you of your precious energy. Your emotions get tired, your brain gets tired from churning unpleasant encounters, and as a result you feel and act from a drained position.

 

Difficult people don’t deserve that kind of power over your life. Yet they can only have that power if you allow them to have it.

 

So, how do you divest them of power? By shifting your focus on to someone else who is greater than they are.

 

Think about the students who do pay attention to and respect you; the friendly barista who serves you more often than the surly one; your efficient secretary; all the people you do enjoy being around.

 

Doing this raises the great people to their proper prominence in your thoughts and lowers the unpleasant ones to obscurity in your consciousness.

 

This doesn’t mean disrespecting the difficult ones as people. It doesn’t mean thinking less of them but thinking less about their unsavory actions.

 

While you are in the process of replacing the not-so-greats with the greats in your mind, you could try writing a note to one of your greats telling them what you admire about them. This will engage your hands with your mind allowing you to physically bring better thoughts into your mind.

 

A good source of cards for writing such notes in can be found at the link below:

 

https://gracearant.com/product-category/all-cards/ 

 

Triumph over the unhappy darts of the malcontent with notes of admiration and thanksgiving.

 

To your card giving,

 

Grace Arant