Haters Will Turn Their Hate On You…Eventually

I don’t respond to
haters
and yes,
I get a LOT of them

I used to get
about 20 hate-filled messages
a day,
some of them death threats,
simply for posting
here on client k
(before I disabled
all contact information).

I don’t respond to haters.

They get off
from responses.
And if I don’t respond to them,
they usually go away
and bother someone else.

I certainly don’t try
to convert them
to fans or customers.

And I don’t try
to convert haters
of other bloggers or writers
or business people
to fans or customers.

Why?

Because haters hate.
That’s what they LOVE to do
– spread misery and negativity.
And eventually
they will turn that hate on me.

Ain’t nobody got time
for that sh*t.

If someone tells you,
unprompted,
they hate something,
walk…no, RUN far away
from them.

You don’t want to
be around them.

Ending Bad Partnerships

The newsletter service I’m with
(MailCh*mp)
is telling me
an error is on my side.
It isn’t.

But I can’t be bothered
to figure out
how to fix it for them.

Because I’m closing
my Romance Novel Business
in two years
and I won’t be working
with this partner
after that point.

I can work around
this error
for 23 more newsletters.

One of the upsides
of closing a business
is it forces us
to end bad partnerships.

We all have some of those.
Maybe it is a delivery service
that is always late.
Or a supplier
who gets one thing wrong
in every order.
Or a customer
who returns everything
he buys.

These partnership cost us money,
time, happiness.

Don’t wait
for your business to close
to end bad partnerships.

End them now.

If You Won’t Change Their Minds, Stop Talking

I chatted with a reader
who hated romance novels.
She didn’t believe
happy was possible
for most people
and that included
imaginary people.

I presented points
but eventually
I realized…
I would never change her mind.
She would never believe
happiness is possible.

So I stopped talking.
I was wasting her time
and I was wasting my time
by talking about it.

We chatted about other things.
I realized I could never be friends
with someone
who didn’t believe I could be happy.
And we went our separate ways.

We don’t have to convince
everyone.
We don’t have to sell
our products/services/ideas/stances
to everyone.

Some people will never buy
and that’s okay
because there are
over 7 billion people
in the world.

We don’t need that sale.
We can stop talking.