This won't hurt a bit

What you can’t see won’t hurt you! I think it’s the same with what you hear. If you take no notice of negative people and naysayers then you will get on with enjoying your life.

I don’t have enough fingers to count the amount of times people have stabbed me in the back, called me a bitch or simply been mean to my face because they envied me or felt that they were more entitled.

To be successful in any field you have to have what is commonly referred to as a ‘thick skin.’ 

I think a ‘deaf ear’ helps too.

Without goals and focus it is easy to be distracted by people who want to tell you that you can’t. If you never heard no or refused to hear it, then you’d still do what you wanted to do. If I’d heard it was a ‘fruitless task’ then I’d never have dual citizenship and would have given up on pursuing an international career in film.

Some people refer to it as tenacity. I love it when someone older says that I’m tenacious. It’s because they recognize it as a good quality. A quality I think is necessary to get ahead in life. Well occasionally luck will do it, but that’s not something you can rely on.

Gossip will always exist. But by not entertaining it, I have enjoyed a varied and entertaining life. When others are not supportive I take it as a sign that they are more interested in what they need, as opposed to being someone who wants the best for me.

And first and foremost I choose to focus on my own inner voice. I decide what happens in my life and I’m responsible for all of my experiences good and bad. Focusing externally is self-defeating and you are less likely to hear truth anyway. Only you know your desires, your strengths, your weaknesses and yourself.

In a celebrity worshipping society where someone with as little talent as Sylvester Stallone has at acting, you know he has to have turned a deaf ear to people somewhere along the line to be earning more money than most scientists and doctors!