Joe PolishFounder of Genius Network and President of Piranha Marketing

SAY GOODBYE TO ENERGY DRAINS AND TOXIC PEOPLE

9 Jan 2024 · 1 min

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Joe Polish advises removing tolerable but harmful people and situations—"rotting milk" in your life—because they worsen over time and poison your environment. He argues that identifying and eliminating small, persistent energy drains (including poor hires or tolerated team members) creates a more conducive environment for success.

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I mean, if you look at any of the people on your team and you ask yourself, knowing what I know now, would I have hired them? And the answer is no, then rotting food doesn't get better with age in the refrigerator. It gets worse. You know? So if you look at all of the rotting milk in your life somewhere that you just tolerate that, you just let it stay there because it's not so smelly, it's not so toxic, you're not really drinking it, but if you did, you'd be poisoned. You, you'd find all kinds of areas where there's thorns, where there's mosquitoes, where there's things that bug the living shit out of you, but they bug the living shit out of you. Not enough for you yet to do something about it. But if you emphasize the removal of those sort of things and creating the sort of environment that is most conducive.