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Negatalkers: People at Work Who Drain You

By Dennis O'Grady

Are you bullish on negative news or positive news in the workplace? Do you stand by as an energy thief sticks a siphon in your communicator car gas tank, sucks your juicy motivational energy dry, and makes your get up and go, well, all gone and spent? Is your office space a place negatalkers come to vent about the latest work woe, scandal or gossip tidbit? Then chances are, you might be your own worst energy-draining enemy.

NEGATALKERS ARE NOT REALISTS WHO ARE HELPING, BUT PESSIMISTS WHO ARE HURTING EVERYONE

I'm not blaming everyone who is negative, because that alone's their full-time job. I'm just saying that you've got to give your energy a chance, and turn off negative talk news stations at work. How to know if you're a negatalker, or a condoner of negatalking:

  1. EXTREMISM....
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