Difficult People Made Easy e-book chapter Pessimists

These people can be very frustrating and a real wet blanket if you are not careful. They are the ones who constantly tell you your ideas won't work and complain about everything.

In this chapter, an extract from my book ‘Difficult People Made Easy’, discover:

• How to motivate these negative people - what you are doing now is probably making them much worse.
  
• Why they love fire-fighting. And why they almost create problems.
  
• The strategy you would never guess that works like a dream. This is so against your natural instincts you will have trouble believing it, but try it and you'll be astonished. 
• Why they have trouble setting goals. This can be a huge problem, especially when you have a person like this in a job where they need to be able to set goals. You'll find out what to do about it.
  
• How to help them set goals and objectives – and achieve them as well.
  
• How to help people who are feeling low. Sometimes people who are feeling bad start to behave like this. You'll discover how to help them quickly.
  
• How to help these people improve their problem-solving skills.
• A quick-reference summary of what to do.
• Why it will work.

To them the glass half empty and full isn’t even a concept they have thought about. They are suspicious of any new ideas and see everything as a problem. Find out how to deal with them in this chapter.