If you didn’t happen to catch last night’s episode of Celebrity Apprentice, you missed some seriously ugly reality-show moments as Melissa (and mom, Joan) Rivers reacted to Trump’s latest firing. Check it out:

“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”
~ Thomas Jefferson

In the game of The Apprentice and in the game of life, poise comes through maturity. When we get it, and can keep it under pressure, we will have a decided advantage over others. John C. Maxwell once wrote that panicking or acting out usually has a negative effect on a situation, but remaining calm and cool enables us to think and act more intelligently. The Rivers duo clearly let the best of their emotions get to them.

Melissa’s firing should come as no surprise, however, as she plainly declared what her fate was going to be well before the boardroom scene. Let’s go back to scenes from the task:

She is proof that what you say about comes about. She speaks about what isn’t, as if it were. And, as you know from the ending, she continues to act as if and goes until that which she spoke about became reality!

Her “woe is me” banter and circumstance-blaming got her exactly what she deserved. There is no such thing as circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want. And if they can’t find them, they make them.

Melissa: Stop playing victim. Stop proclaiming entitlement. Stop seeking to be rescued. Stop blaming.

Bottom line? Get out of your own way.

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