Have you ever been preparing for a clash, be it intellectual, verbal, physical, only to realize nobody is interested in fighting with you, or worse — nobody even showed up?

As if negative comments we can hear from other people are not bad enough, it turns out we can be pretty sadistic to our own selves too!

You want to put me down? Joke’s on you, I already did it to myself!

When it comes to criticism, naysayers are not very creative. From someone who tries to put you down, you would expect something more than predictable banality. Luckily enough, usually that's pretty much all they have to offer.

Luckily?

Yes. Here's the list of Top 5 negative comments you can hear. And advice how to disarm them on the spot.

Negative comments? Let’s be honest — we’ve all been there.

“Stupid idea”. “That can’t work”. “But there’s already thing like that”. “Ah, that’s cute little idea! How’s your job search going by the way?”

Sounds familiar, right? Well, keep on reading, because we’ve got something that will help you to deal with them!

Last summer I had to drive to Linz, small town in northern Austria. I didn’t use the ride-recording app I downloaded though. Why? Because recording your ride is illegal in Austria and, when caught, can cost you around 10.000 euro.

How did I learn about that?

I know how you picture it:

You achieve your goal. The last drop of sweat crawls from your forehead down to your nose. The warm, summer, setting sun turns the landscape around you gold and red, so that your achieved goal gets its cliche epic background.

But it is also possible, that, upon achieving your goal, all you’ll have to say is “meh”.

Early 2017 I decided to nail it down this time, and to my surprise, first 3 weeks of January happened not to be as productive as I expected.

So I started to look for the tricks, ideas, advice, inspirations and tools that would help me stay more organised. Ended up on YouTube.

While majority of blogs I had a pleasure to read, elaborate on how to “avoid”, “overcome” or “handle” the failure, I’d like to suggest that we erase that word from our vocabularies.

Have you ever had that one simple question on the back of your head, when someone was telling you what you should do, or how you should do it? The “Yeah, but Why?” question? The same you eventually didn’t ask?

You probably should have asked. Really.