While scrolling through my Twitter feed I happened upon the quote “you give life to what you give energy to”. This caused me to think about all of life’s distractions. Focusing your energy on other people’s drama takes it away from achieving your own goals. By changing your focus, or energy, you’ve given life to something that isn’t helping you. Drama becomes an all-consuming distraction when you give it life.
Have you ever been swimming in the ocean and looked up to find that you’ve drifted away from the beach? You don’t realize the drifting because it is a slow and gradual process. Undercurrents will slowly drag you away from where you are trying to go. Drama is like swimming in the ocean with the undercurrents slowly pulling you in. When you are finally able to step back from the situation, you realize you’ve been pulled in and thrown off the path to your goals.
Undercurrents happen from hanging out with the wrong people, people who don’t share your values or goals. People with bad attitudes, selfishness and anger. Consequently, these people create undercurrents of drama that separate you from progress and cause you to lose good jobs and careers. The drama pulls you in and causes you to lose good friends and family. They deteriorate your network and brand. These people bring undercurrents of drama that will drag you off course but if you make the necessary adjustments, you can get back inline.
Position yourself back to where you need to be by keeping your eyes on the right things. Give life to things that are aligned to your purpose by focusing your energy on them. Focus on what will advance you and where you can bring value. Ask yourself if focusing on this will help you meet your goals. If it doesn’t, stay clear of those situations otherwise the undercurrents that other people are bringing your way will take you off course.
Deal with the undercurrents of other people’s drama because it won’t go away on its own. Shut them down early by redirecting the conversation. Tell them you don’t have time for that and that you need to stay focused on your own course.
Last updated on September 29th, 2018 at 07:05 am
