Someone who is perpetually unhappy will refuse to think outside the box. But I had to accept the fact that as they grow up, I grow up. If I had my way, they’d still be in onesies playing on the floor with tinker toys. To be perfectly honest, I hate watching my kids go to the next season in their lives. I fit into this category every once in a while. It makes them feel bad when someone else changes and they’re not ready to change yet. They don’t like change for themselves, and they certainly don’t like seeing other people change either. A perpetually unhappy person might hate change. People who tend to be on the negative side don’t have that self-worth or self-love.Ģ. But love and respect are not going to come from others until we love and respect ourselves. It doesn’t matter how close you are to them, you will be let down occasionally. We must remember that people are always going to let us down it’s just a fact of life. People who are perpetually negative have not learned to love themselves they quite often rely on others to fill their love bucket instead of filling it themselves first. We need to learn how to walk with ourselves as a friend and not as a critic. I actually blogged about this in my weekend must-reads post. They quite often wrestle with self-worth. Here are 4 characteristics of a Debbie Downer:ġ. If you feel that you’re perpetually in one or all of them, make sure you read all the way to the end, because I’m going to offer some reading suggestions to get you out of the slump. See if you can fit into any of these, because I know I can occasionally. But I can say that from being a coach and coaching clients, it is not uncommon for a few characteristics to pop up that seem to be consistently evident in an unhappy person’s life. Now, I don’t know what’s going on in their world, and neither do you. And it saddens me when I say that, but those are the type of people this post is geared towards. For some people, it doesn’t matter – day in and day out they’re unhappy. But that’s an occasional happening for most of us. We all wake up on the wrong side of the bed. Let me clarify to say that everyone has bad days. We all know someone who just seems perpetually unhappy or unsatisfied with anything and everything going on in their world. This is one of my favorite topics, so I’ll just get right to the point – how to recognize if you are a Debbie Downer, Negative Nancy, or basically just an unhappy person.
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