I’ve had some big life changes occurring over the last few months & as such have dreadfully neglected my writing. Sorry, I’m not sorry… things have actually been really exciting and I’m sooooo looking forward to the rest of this year!

Amid all the excitement, I got to really think about and analyze the various people in my life, and on Facebook in general, and realized there were key differences in how people respond to things. For instance, as a health coach I’m always helping people lose weight or improve their energy or make some serious gains at the gym, and when they post about it on Facebook, there’s always two types of responses:

“Oh my gosh! Congratulations! SO HAPPY FOR YOU”

“WOW! That’s amazing, let me know what you’re doing”

and

“You’ve lost too much weight too quickly, that can’t be healthy”

“You looked better when you were bigger”

That’s nice, thanks for shitting all over someone’s amazing achievement. They obviously changed their lives to serve your preferences and not their own.

In my (not-so-) humble opinion, there are really two types of people in this world: The Celebrators & The Doubters.

Now, as it pertains me, I’m changing jobs. I’ll be in a new work place that will involve more learning, more challenges, and a lot of fantastic opportunities to impact people and impact their financial lives and futures. (I’m so EXCITEDDDD, I just can’t HIDEEit!!! *does dance*). But before I came to this conclusion, I had a lot of back and forth in my head because I’m very comfortable where I work now, there’s nothing challenging about my job but it’s easy for me and not -too- stressful most of the time. Except that I found myself being miserable about coming into work and if you know me, you know that’s my biggest fear in life: waking up and hating what I do each day. So I decided to change my situation.

Awesome! Right?

I really genuinely think it is. But just as stated above, there were some people that had some really silly comments to make about the change & I’m officially labeling them: The Doubters. These are the people who are going to find something wrong with EVERY single situation, for themselves or for someone else. In the case of weight loss it’ll always be – too fast or too slow or not enough food or too much food or SOMETHING. In the case of my job change, it was too hard, too many hours, too much work, very different, outside your comfort zone, and etc.. They will find something. We all know these people. Don’t be one of them, it’s really just annoying.

But the BEST responses I got were from the people I’ll dub: The Celebrators. These people were so genuinely overjoyed and supportive of my decision and my accomplishment that they made me even more excited for pursuing it. They understood that I don’t make any decisions lightly and if I had my heart set on doing this, then it must be the right choice. They even pushed me through all the difficulties: quitting my current job and making the transition. The Celebrators are the people who understand that friendship is about helping those around you be their absolute best selves.

Be a celebrator. Be the person that people are excited to share news with. Be the one who makes good news seem EVEN better for the person hearing it. Be the one who says all the good and positive things and offers all the support. This way, people will always want to be around you, want to share with you & want you in their lives. Be excited, be happy, be enthusiastic. BE AMAZING! Because everyone wants more amazing in their lives!