{"id":2051,"date":"2009-07-28T09:34:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T13:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarcentral.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2009-07-28T09:34:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T13:34:43","slug":"bipolar-disorder-discover-the-102-equation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/bipolar-disorder-discover-the-102-equation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar Disorder? Discover The 10\/2 Equation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

How’s it going for you?<\/p>\n

Today I need to talk to you about something that is really bothering me.<\/p>\n

You know I get tons and tons of emails, right? Well a lot of them are positive ones, and they make me feel really good, like ones that tell me how much these emails help them, and others on how much they have learned from my courses and things like that, like in all the testimonials<\/p>\n

I have.<\/p>\n

Those are the emails I really like, and the ones I\u2019m used to, pretty much. But then there are the emails I get that really get me down. And I\u2019m not a person who likes to get down, or who gets down easily.<\/p>\n

But I got this email, and this woman went on and on and on about her problems. Now, don\u2019t get me wrong \u2013 it\u2019s not that I don\u2019t care about people\u2019s problems, because I wouldn\u2019t be doing<\/p>\n

what I\u2019m doing if I didn\u2019t care. You know that, right?<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s just that I deal in solutions. That\u2019s what I write about and teach in all my courses, how to find solutions, and how to be solution-oriented:<\/p>\n

SUPPORTING AN ADULT WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?<\/p>\n

Visit:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/report11<\/a><\/p>\n

SUPPORTING A CHILD\/TEEN WITH BIPOLAR DISORDER?<\/p>\n

Visit:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.bipolarparenting.com<\/a><\/p>\n

HAVE BIPOLAR DISORDER?<\/p>\n

Visit:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.survivebipolar.net<\/a><\/p>\n

Not dwelling on the problems is part of it. Being a positive person is another part of it. But definitely NOT being a negative person is NOT part of it! You can’t find ANY solutions that way! And no one likes to listen to a complainer.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t dwell in the negative \u2013 I dwell on the positive, and I surround myself with positive people, because they bring me up, and keep me positive, too. I get really disappointed when people around me are negative.<\/p>\n

Like this email I got the other day where this woman just went on and on complaining, but didn\u2019t offer any kind of solution to the problems she was having.<\/p>\n

To tell you the truth, after reading that email, I felt like I should have charged her a consultant\u2019s fee, like a psychiatrist would do, just for reading (\u201clistening to\u201d) all her complaints!<\/p>\n

Now again, I don\u2019t want hate mail for this, or people saying I don\u2019t care, when you know how much I do care.<\/p>\n

The point is, after all this positive email I had read, this one negative email had the power to bring me down. Why? Well, I thought about it.<\/p>\n

And then I talked to Michele (who works for me) about it.<\/p>\n

And she told me about this equation she used when she was bringing up her kids:<\/p>\n

THE 10\/2 EQUATION<\/p>\n

Regarding negative people\u2026<\/p>\n

If you are a 10 and they are a 2, and you hang around with them, you will not bring them up to an 8, they will bring you down to a 4.<\/p>\n

————————————–<\/p>\n

She used this in teaching her children how to choose their friends wisely. But really, can\u2019t you see how it can be used in dealing with bipolar disorder as well?<\/p>\n

Here, follow me with this, as I apply it to the email I got. I can either surround myself with positive people or negative people.<\/p>\n

Regarding the email I got, I am the 10 and she is the 2. I could try to answer her with positive answers, and try to bring her up to an 8, but considering how negative her email was, most<\/p>\n

likely that won\u2019t work, and she will just succeed in bringing me down to a 4 instead.<\/p>\n

See what she\u2019s done already? I\u2019m already bummed out about it, feeling negative, letting it upset my day to the point that I\u2019m writing about it in this email!<\/p>\n

OR\u2026<\/p>\n

I can choose to stay a 10 on the positivity scale in the 10\/2 Equation. I can let that email go. I can surround myself with positive people. I can stay positive and NOT let negative people bring me down.<\/p>\n

These are choices I can make.<\/p>\n

People like the lady in the email are going to be negative no matter what. They will try to get other people to listen to them complain, because they are negative and not solution-oriented.<\/p>\n

They just want someone to buy into their negativity and listen to them.<\/p>\n

But we don\u2019t have to do that. We are TENS! We have a choice! We don\u2019t have to be brought down to 4\u2019s if we don\u2019t want to! We can surround ourselves with positive people!<\/p>\n

Have you had problems like I had with this woman?<\/p>\n

Have you found yourself surrounded with negative people?<\/p>\n

Can you relate to the 10\/2 equation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi,<\/p>\n

How’s it going for you?<\/p>\n

Today I need to talk to you about something that is really bothering me.<\/p>\n

You know I get tons and tons of emails, right? Well a lot of them are positive ones, and they make me feel really good, like ones that tell me how much these emails help them, and others on how much they have learned from my courses and things like that,<\/p>\n

Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nBipolar Disorder? Discover The 10\/2 Equation - Bipolar Supporter Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bipolarsupporter.com\/bipolarsupporterblog\/bipolar-disorder-discover-the-102-equation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bipolar Disorder? Discover The 10\/2 Equation - Bipolar Supporter Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, How’s it going for you? Today I need to talk to you about something that is really bothering me. You know I get tons and tons of emails, right? 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