7 Toxic Relationships That Will Ruin Your Success & Drain Your Energy

7 Toxic Relationships That Will Ruin Your Success & Drain Your Energy

1. Liars – Somehow their stories just never seem to add up. Or, you’ve heard it so many times that it sounds different each time. Beware of hanging out with liars, they can bring your downfall along with their own.

2. Gossipers – These kinds are not too far from liars and share some of the same traits. But gossipers love rumor and revealing secrets. They are basically small-minded people who like to divulge personal information about other people. Beware of gossips, if they can gossip to you about others, they will also gossip to others about you.

3. Time wasters – These are folks who always seem to have time on their hands but have nothing to show at the end of the day. They are the most intrusive and somehow find ways to disturb you with small talk, unnecessary meetings, “urgent emails” and uninvited/unwelcomed visits. If you’re not careful, time wasters will drain your energy and make you unproductive — not good for success.

4. Haters – Are basically boasters. They’re jealous people full of pride. When the world doesn’t revolve around them, they resort to diminishing others so they themselves can look great. Haters/boasters like to talk about titles and credentials, especially their own. If you keep company with haters, you run the risk of losing teammates and customers. You also will have to behold their downfall or fall yourself because pride goes before defeat. Stop hating on others. Give credit to whom it is due.

5. Complainers – We can call them “favor-stealers” because no one wants to show favor to chronic complainers. Nothing is ever good for the complainer, even if things were actually going great. If you want to drive key people away from you, keep complaining yourself or harbor complainers. Complainers are basically ungrateful. Instead of thanking God and others for what they have, they constantly whine about what they don’t have and don’t appreciate what they do have.

6. Pessimists – Similar to complainers, pessimists bemoan every situation as worse than it really is. They are dream-killers because the have no faith in what could be or will be. Pessimists are also doubters and fear-mongers in disguise. Do not overlook them at any cost! Anything or anyone that does not feed your faith is feeding your doubt and doubt creates fear and fear produces inertia and disobedience. When you doubt, you cause others to retreat and abandon that which they know to be right. That’s how dangerous the pessimistic doubter can be. To them, nothing will ever work so they rather do nothing.

7. Delusional – These, to me, are probably the most troublesome (falling right behind the pessimist). They can drag you to the poor house and take you on a never-ending merry-go-round with their unrealistic pie-in-the-sky “dreams” and opinions. They waste so much of your time with their fixed false beliefs because they do not face reality, even when confronted with facts. They can disguise themselves as optimists with their big talk and grandiose vision(s), but nothing ever materializes because they will not deal with the clear reality of things. You can spot them from a mile off because they only talk-the-talk but never implement their “big dreams.” Instead, they keep jumping from one great idea to another. They’re actually beside themselves. If you allow a delusional person to take up your time and ear, you will suffer for it by being overly stressed, angry, and you may come to the point of resenting them or despise being around them.

There you have it. You’re now able to identify the SevenToxic Relationships That Will Ruin Your Success & Drain Your Energy. What next? Try my 5 Tips on How to Deal with Toxic People Without Losing Your Mind.

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