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1. Guard Your Time

1. Guard Your Time

Don’t allow negative people to steal your time and energy. Rather than complain about people you don't enjoy, choose to strike up conversations about pleasurable topics.

Take back your power by limiting the amount of time you spend talking about, thinking about, and worrying about unpleasant people.

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3. Refocus Your Thoughts

3. Refocus Your Thoughts

Negative people often influence what we think about.

  • Pay attention to how your thoughts change when you're faced with negative people. The more time you spend dreading, fretting, worrying, and rehashing, the less time you'll have to devote to more productive things.

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2. Choose Your Attitude

2. Choose Your Attitude

Spending time with negative people can be the fastest way to ruin a good mood.

Make a conscious effort to choose your attitude. Create a mantra, such as, “I’m going to stay positive today despite the people around me,” and repeat it often to help you stay on track. Take a deep breat...

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4. Choose to Behave Productively

4. Choose to Behave Productively

Negative people can bring out the worst in us if we're not careful. A normally calm, mild-mannered person may resort to yelling when he can’t take one more second of negativity.

When you act in a manner that isn’t consistent with your usual behavior, accep...

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5. Seek out positive people

5. Seek out positive people

It’s difficult to look on the bright side when you’re surrounded by negativity. Seek out positive people to keep you balanced. A positive person can brighten your spirit.

Identify the positive people in your life. Proactively schedule time with them on a regular basis.

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3. Refocus Your Thoughts

3. Refocus Your Thoughts

Negative people often influence what we think about.

  • Pay attention to how your thoughts change when you're faced with negative people. The more time you spend dreading, fretting, worrying, and rehashing, the less time you'll have to devote to more productive things.

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