Question One, -"I find that certain people in my life drag me down, how do I solve that?" Answer-Take note that your language, ‘they drag me down’ is what we call victim language, not language of empowerment. You are truly giving these people way too much power, and the way you think and speak about it, indicates a lot more about you, than it does about them. In reality, they don’t drag you down, you allow yourself to indulge in negative thoughts and feelings around the experience of dealing with these people. In every one of these experiences, you actually have a choice of how you respond or react around them. True self mastery welcomes these experiences because they clearly mirro how masterful we are at any given time. An empowering way to deal with this, is to say, when I am around these people I feel sad or down momentarily, however, I also will in no way let anyone steal my joy and therefore I make a commitment to pick myself up by the inner bootstraps and get back into the ZONE get back on track with ME. Victor Frankl in the Nazi concentrations camps had an attitude that said “They can take away my physical freedom but cannot take away my inner freedom.” If Frankl can display such self mastery within those extreme conditions,, surely we can the same with annoying and difficult people in our lives.