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By Lynne Cory

What if I was invited to a dinner and knew that a negative, needy person was also attending and found myself saying “I hope they don’t sit next to me” and slapped myself on the head because I knew I was creating this exact experience?  What if I shifted my thinking to “I hope I sit between two fun people” knowing that either the needy one would sit somewhere else or she would be fun if she sat next to me?