Warning: This may hurt a little, but it is for your own good and your future personal and business success depends on it.

Removing the “Red Lights” and “Motivation Vampires” from your business and life.

No matter how high you climb, there will always be someone or something that will try to bring you down.

You need to recognize the people and things that are bringing you down, And when you see them, run… run away as fast as you can. Their negativity will devour you.

Have you experienced this before? You come up with a great idea, or accomplish something exciting, and you share it with your friend, your uncle, or your colleague…. Only to be shot down with some BS pessimistic attitude.

It happened to me the other day. I was at a party and someone asked me what I did for a living. I told him “I have a few internet businesses” , he replied with “oh, so you’re unemployed”. It took everything I had to not give him a right hook right in front of every one at the party.

Instead, I said “yeah, pretty much” and walked away. I refuse to have some schmuck pour his negative energy all over me and bring me down. There are millions of people like this dumbass, everywhere, take a look around you.

You have to be willing to fire people from your life, even your closest friends and family members. I’m not saying you should love them any less, but I am saying you need to limit the amount of time you spend with them if they the suck the positive energy out of you. Unless of course you can convince them to stop being so damn negative. Tell them that you don’t want to talk about the economy, gas prices, or George Frekin’ Bush!

The sooner you embrace this and accept it the more successful you will be. It is a real challenge to stand up for yourself and take the power back, the power of what you hear, and what influences you. It’s ok to say NO.

Say no to the media, say no to your friends, say no to all the people that try to bring you down.

Taking control of your time and energy is NOT a free ticket to just be rude and selfish. Ok, maybe just a little bit selfish, but in a good way.

Keith