This struck a chord with me on many levels. Lotsa complaining going on all around me in our business. Very easy to get sucked in. Very difficult to be bigger than problems. But I am.  :)_______________________________________________________________________________

2 Habits of Highly Ineffective People

By Matt Furey  (Matt Furey is a motivational writer)


(Excerpts from article in Early To Rise pubication, May
20, 2006)

There are two lousy habits that most people have - and
these two habits take up quite a bit of their schedules
these days. No, I'm not talking about smoking,
drinking, or swearing.

I'm talking about ...

1. Criticizing others
2. Criticizing yourself

One of the reasons is because criticism increases
emotional tension and stress in your mind/body.

Whenever you criticize yourself or others, a frown
comes to your face, and you unconsciously begin to
tense and tighten your muscles. Internally, your organs
respond to the attack, too. Even when you think your
attack is singular in focus - directed only toward a
person you dislike, for example - your body responds as
if you're attacking yourself as well.

Another reason is that criticism derails you from
furthering your growth as a human being.

Criticizing others is a major waste of your time. It
keeps you stuck. It takes your mind off what you should
be doing with your life.

Get creatively alive. Get involved in doing something
good. Eliminate as much criticism from your life as you
can

Do your best to avoid personal attacks on yourself and
others. Start observing yourself a little more closely.
Take note of when you get sucked into discussions about
others that are nothing more than personal attacks. And
when you find yourself in such a situation, say to
yourself, "Wait a minute.I'm wasting my time. Instead
of attacking this person, I should be making MY life
better."

If you think this way, I'm betting that you'll start
coming up with ways to spend your time that will help
propel you forward.

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The statement below came from a different source, which I can't recall. But it seems to fit:

DON'T GET INTO A PISSING CONTEST WITH SKUNKS!  :)