Dealing With Those Who 'Just Don't Get It'!

I have been reading "The Four Hour Work Week" by Timothy Ferriss (which is my goal to get to earning my type of income, investing 4 hours per week). This is an amazing book and a must read for anyone who is serious about living their dream. It IS Possible and Tim shows you exactly how you can achieve that in his book.

I have taken the below points from Tim, who explains how best to deal with those people who think we are crazy following our dream... they simply JUST DON'T GET IT.

1. It doesn’t matter how many people don’t get it. What matters is how many people do.“It’s critical in social media, as in life, to have a clear objective and not to lose sight of that.” If your objective is to do the greatest good for the greatest number of people or to change the world in some small way (be it through a product or service), you only need to pick your first 1,000 fans — and carefully. The 10 million that don’t get it don’t matter.
2. 10% of people will find a way to take anything personally. Expect it. People are least productive in reactive mode, and before explaining that if you are expecting resistance and attackers, you can choose your response in advance, as opposed to reacting inappropriately. This, Ferriss says, will only multiply the problem. “Online, I see people committing ’social media suicide’ all the time by one of two ways. Firstly by responding to all criticism, meaning you’re never going to find time to complete important milestones of your own, and by responding to things that don’t warrant a response.” This, says Ferriss, lends more credibility by driving traffic.
3. “Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.” (Colin Powell) If you treat everyone the same and respond to everyone by apologizing or agreeing, you’re not going to be recognising the best performers, and you’re not going to be improving the worst performers. That guarantees you’ll get more behavior you don’t want and less you do. That doesn’t mean never respond, Ferriss goes on to say, but be “tactical and strategic” when you do.
4. “If you are really effective at what you do, 95% of the things said about you will be negative.” (Scott Boras) This principle goes hand-in-hand with number two. The bigger your impact, and the larger the ambition and scale of your project, the more negativity you’ll encounter. Ferriss jokes he has haters “in about 35 languages.” :)
5. “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” (Epictetus) Another way to phrase this is through a more recent quote from Elbert Hubbard, “‘To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” Ferriss says he has learned to enjoy criticism over the years. To do anything remotely interesting you need to train yourself to be effective at dealing with, responding to, even enjoying criticism…
6. “Living well is the best revenge.” (George Herbert) The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you, Ferriss advises. That, and [show] how much fun you’re having! Ferriss goes on to say that the best revenge is letting haters continue to live with their own resentment and anger, which most of the time has nothing to do with you in particular. "Don’t get angry, don’t get even — focus on living well and that will eat at them more than anything you can do.”
7. Keep calm and carry on. Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!

Remember, most will never 'get it', but be grateful that you do!!

DREAM BIG!
Cristy Willis
http://www.OnlineProfitExperts.com