Ever have a day where the wind is TOTALLY taken out of your sails?  I get up EVERY morning with a positive attitude as I wipe the sleep from my eyes and make my shakes (and my coffee).

It’s interesting how I can just be motoring along, getting things done, and then BAM!  Some craphead decides to throw a negative wrench in everything.  “You can’t do this… You can’t do that…  That’s STUPID!”

Ever have one of those in your life?  It’s one thing when it’s a family member, and we all have those, but sometimes when it’s a business colleague that you USED to respect and want to help succeed, it really throws me for a loop.

I am an author, I make my own hours (which is sometimes 18-hours a day) and I take my work very seriously.  I also take my CHALLENGE very seriously.  So when someone comes in a pees all over my corn flakes (to quote a phrase), it REALLY gets to me.

I took a nap (which I hadn’t done in over 2 weeks) and decided to wake up with a different attitude.  I did indeed.  I trimmed the fat, so to speak.  That person is no longer a business colleague, no matter what that means monetarily, because negativity is the LAST thing I need.  I am too tired and work too much for that mess.

My moral of this story… trim the fat… literally and psychologically, because Negative Nellie is a real DOWNER sometimes (or most of the time) and she LOOKS attractive, but we soon find out that there’s an agenda, or jealousy (that’s a big one) when we are determined to succeed.  BYE BYE, Nellie!