Sometimes u gotta wear ur sunshine shield.

Earlier this year I made a resolution be postive. I would not allow folk’s negativity into my life, I would tune these folks out. But one of my co-workers is determined to give me a hard time on this. He wants to throw cloud bombs on my sunshine. For this reason, I come armed with my sunshine shield. It blocks all cloud bombs no matter how powerful.
My job is fairly straight forward. You make phone calls, you recruit people to the school, and you close files. That is it in a nut shell. We have deadlines and we have goals. Everything is in black and white, none of us should be confused. There will always be things that happen that is out of our control. A student changes their mind, the student is denied financial aid, the student fails the tests, whatever. But your goals are still clear, you gotta replace them, not complain about them.
My co-worker is determined to keep complaining. Both he and I didn’t hit our last target. The shit is like that sometimes. But what do I do? I try to make up for it this session. What does he do? Complain about every reason why he didn’t hit target. (Trust me, no one cares. We are sales people, it is all about the numbers.) He says the students suck, our manager is terrible, our compensation plan sucks, this is a terrible job. And I say, recruit more students, we really don’t need our manager to do our job, hit your target and you’ll get paid more, and this is an easy job (comparatively speaking.) Man this dude was determined to make me feel as miserable as he was feeling yesterday and I wasn’t feeling it.
No matter what job you do, you are accountable for some goals. You don’t hit your goals, there are consequences. Deal with it and quit complaining. This guy yesterday said something profound and I’m going to hold on to it. He said "bring your own weather." By this he means if you decide that you want to be sunshiny, be that no matter anyone else’s weather patterns. Do not let someone’s cloudiness, storms, or gloom affect your weather. Put on your sunshine shield and keep shining.