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Old and classic advice.

Do not shout your accomplishments out every time you obtain them. Be quiet.

With today's society Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Tumblr and etc. take up so much of our lives. And what do we do with these social media platforms? We post about what we had for breakfast, our new iPhones, our baby's first steps, new shoes. So, what do these all sum up to be? Moments in our life that we are full of pride and happiness about.

The thing is with this is that you never know who is plotting on your downfall. You never know who is smiling in your face but hoping and wishing that you are miserable. And unfortunately, some of us deal with friends or maybe even family that aren't genuine enough and wish the worst on our accomplishments or choices that we make for ourselves.

This is where it gets tricky. I know you want to shout and scream to the world all that you have done or plan to do— who wouldn't?

But by doing this, you're allowing other people's energy into your surroundings. You're allowing negativity into your choices. You're allowing another voice in your subconscious stating that you are not able to do it. You don't realize how much power that affect could have on you and that is what is crazy about it.

You may want to quit a job because you are not happy with it and start a business, switch your major, opt out of something that you've been putting your mind to for years or might just now thought about a project that you want to start and tell someone in regards of only looking for advice or their perspective on it. Now what you get back is completely opposite and full of negativity.

They may scream out your failures and whisper your accomplishments. They may do or say certain things just to make you act out just to see that reaction out of you. They may say that you're not good or smart enough, that you don't have enough of experience and so on. If you have that energy around, how is this helping you? So, now you may talk yourself into thinking the same thing. Which in result, then leads you to not go through with your dream.

Do you understand?

You are good enough for it, you do deserve it.

What you don't deserve are people that are around you not supporting, benefiting or respecting you in any sense of the word. I mean, what are you keeping them around for? To just keep you from being happy and moving forward with your life?

Stop giving people this power over over you.

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