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Answer Upon - Overcoming Victimhood
We're going to talk about one of those issues that I think is the most serious stumbling blocks to Internet success: fear of losing money.Now, I'm sure that you're reading that statement and probably thinking, "Oh God, here we go..." But, you know, I honestly believe that our fear of spending money has proven to be one of the most cancerous issues we have.There's an old adage that "it takes money to make money." We've all heard it. It's really become a bit of a cliche, and as such, it's widely ignored or just said in passing. But, it's actually just as true today as it was decades ago.The most cunning Internet marketers, however, won't tell you that. A
2. Just as people tend to avoid victims, if you're a victim you'll tend to avoid *yourself*. You'll tend to avoid your 'realness'. Through pity, judgments, blame, righteousness, etc.
It separates you from yourself. Separation leads to pain. Thus, victimhood becomes a pain factory.
Victimhood is a trap. Most will never escape. Because there's nothing to grab hold of. It's like being in a mud pit. Or a swamp.
The problem is, victimhood sucks you in and it holds on tight. You start believing the lie: "You really are a victim, and you'll always be a victim. There's nothing you can do."
You become a victim to your own victimhood.
The Way Out
You've got to fi
With an ex-Presidential candidate as its pitchman, more mentions on late-night talk shows than Joan Embry and the dubious honor of being the world’s top pharmaceutical treatment for impotence, few drugs in history have been more in the public eye more than Viagra – or gotten more attention for affecting the public's eyes. Along with its impact below the belt, Viagra (Sildenafil Citrate) is well-documented to cause retinal dysfunction lasting several hours after it is taken. Most commonly, it causes increased light sensitivity, blurring, and a bluish tint or haze to vision in many men who take the medication. Since receiving FDA approval in March 1998, Viagra has
Why do the 'peak' moments never seem to last as long as the gutter moments?
It's all in how you choose to function.
For most of my life, I functioned as a victim. Why?
1. I used it to connect with other people.
"Did I tell you what happened to me?"
Basically, it was a way to belong. To get love. To connect.
You know the saying: "Selling is a transference of feeling"? Well, that's how I used victimhood. I wanted you to know how I'm feeling.
I wanted to transfer *my* feelings to *you*!
2. I used it to avoid responsibility.
Choices and decisions; taking a stand; being in charge: it all seems so scary.
"I don't want to be responsible!"
Better to let circumstances tell me what to do. Can't make a mistake if I don't do anything!
"After all, I'm a victim. I can't be responsible for what happens in my life."
3. It became my identity. A way of life. A state of being. A state of existence. And I grew to like it.
"I don't know who I'd be if I weren't a victim."
It was familiar. It gave me 'comfort'. Because I didn't see the damage it was doing. I didn't know it shut out the love I was so desperately seeking.
See, I wasn't trying to destroy the world by being a victim.
But if I can get you to feel sorry for me...
If I can just get you to take care of me...
Is that a crime?
I took the main coping skill of a child and used it as a grown-up in a grown-up world. Being a victim is kind of like sucking your thumb. There's no law against it, but still it doesn't look very nice.
I thought it was the 'best', the 'safest', the 'smartest' option for living life. I was highly motivated to be a victim.
It was the 'default' selection:
"When in doubt, function as a victim."
How Functions Work
A 'function' is like a soda machine. You put something in - and it always gives you something back out. You put in your money and you get out a diet soda. That's a function.
A function works like this:
INPUT ---> FUNCTION ---> OUTPUT
My input: the events that happened in my life.
My function: how I interpreted those events.
My output: how I would think and feel and act.
So if I function as a victim, I will take any event - good or bad - and make it into something that supports my victimhood.
Some people experience horribly painful events in their lives, and turn them into something inspiring and uplifting. Lemons into lemonade.
An outside observer might see them as a victim; but they don't see themselves that way. Or if they do feel like a victim, it doesn't last.
Everybody will experience tragedy at one time or another. But not everybody will function as a victim.
What about you?
Traps Of Victimhood
1. People who function as a victim end up creating a victim reality. The world really does conform to their wishes! The more you feel like a victim, the more you become a victim. You have a tendency to keep sinking deeper and deeper.
2. Just as people tend to avoid victims, if you're a victim you'll tend to avoid *yourself*. You'll tend to avoid your 'realness'. Through pity, judgments, blame, righteousness, etc.
It separates you from yourself. Separation leads to pain. Thus, victimhood becomes a pain factory.
Victimhood is a trap. Most will never escape. Because there's nothing to grab hold of. It's like being in a mud pit. Or a swamp.
The problem is, victimhood sucks you in and it holds on tight. You start believing the lie: "You really are a victim, and you'll always be a victim. There's nothing you can do."
You become a victim to your own victimhood.
The Way Out
You've got to fir
To succeed in today’s crowded marketplace where most of the products and advertising look exactly the same, a small business owner must stand out, shouting above the din with a message so clear and compelling that prospects stop and take notice. It’s a matter of business survival. Unfortunately, most entrepreneurs quickly retreat to the supposed security of sameness, soon to be lost in a sea of anonymity and a tidal wave of frustration. In effect, albeit at a subconscious level, they are saying , “I don’t want to be different”.In back room offices and store fronts everywhere, salespeople are telling business owners they should do this or that kind of ad because it
"I don't want to be responsible!"
Better to let circumstances tell me what to do. Can't make a mistake if I don't do anything!
"After all, I'm a victim. I can't be responsible for what happens in my life."
3. It became my identity. A way of life. A state of being. A state of existence. And I grew to like it.
"I don't know who I'd be if I weren't a victim."
It was familiar. It gave me 'comfort'. Because I didn't see the damage it was doing. I didn't know it shut out the love I was so desperately seeking.
See, I wasn't trying to destroy the world by being a victim.
But if I can get you to feel sorry for me...
If I can just get you to take care of me...
Is that a crime?
I took the main coping skill of a child and used it as a grown-up in a grown-up world. Being a victim is kind of like sucking your thumb. There's no law against it, but still it doesn't look very nice.
I thought it was the 'best', the 'safest', the 'smartest' option for living life. I was highly motivated to be a victim.
It was the 'default' selection:
"When in doubt, function as a victim."
How Functions Work
A 'function' is like a soda machine. You put something in - and it always gives you something back out. You put in your money and you get out a diet soda. That's a function.
A function works like this:
INPUT ---> FUNCTION ---> OUTPUT
My input: the events that happened in my life.
My function: how I interpreted those events.
My output: how I would think and feel and act.
So if I function as a victim, I will take any event - good or bad - and make it into something that supports my victimhood.
Some people experience horribly painful events in their lives, and turn them into something inspiring and uplifting. Lemons into lemonade.
An outside observer might see them as a victim; but they don't see themselves that way. Or if they do feel like a victim, it doesn't last.
Everybody will experience tragedy at one time or another. But not everybody will function as a victim.
What about you?
Traps Of Victimhood
1. People who function as a victim end up creating a victim reality. The world really does conform to their wishes! The more you feel like a victim, the more you become a victim. You have a tendency to keep sinking deeper and deeper.
2. Just as people tend to avoid victims, if you're a victim you'll tend to avoid *yourself*. You'll tend to avoid your 'realness'. Through pity, judgments, blame, righteousness, etc.
It separates you from yourself. Separation leads to pain. Thus, victimhood becomes a pain factory.
Victimhood is a trap. Most will never escape. Because there's nothing to grab hold of. It's like being in a mud pit. Or a swamp.
The problem is, victimhood sucks you in and it holds on tight. You start believing the lie: "You really are a victim, and you'll always be a victim. There's nothing you can do."
You become a victim to your own victimhood.
The Way Out
You've got to fi
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is the system that handles the internal course of action of a business. It comprises of resources planning, management control and equipped control. It came after manufacturing resource planning (MRP II), a proposal for the effective planning of all resources of a production company. This further originated from material requirements planning (MRP), the method used to handle the manufacturing processes. ERP mainly deals with manufacturing, logistics, inventory, invoicing and accounting of a company. It is a back office system wherein the clientele, suppliers and the general public are not directly involved. ERPs are generally cross-functi
I thought it was the 'best', the 'safest', the 'smartest' option for living life. I was highly motivated to be a victim.
It was the 'default' selection:
"When in doubt, function as a victim."
How Functions Work
A 'function' is like a soda machine. You put something in - and it always gives you something back out. You put in your money and you get out a diet soda. That's a function.
A function works like this:
INPUT ---> FUNCTION ---> OUTPUT
My input: the events that happened in my life.
My function: how I interpreted those events.
My output: how I would think and feel and act.
So if I function as a victim, I will take any event - good or bad - and make it into something that supports my victimhood.
Some people experience horribly painful events in their lives, and turn them into something inspiring and uplifting. Lemons into lemonade.
An outside observer might see them as a victim; but they don't see themselves that way. Or if they do feel like a victim, it doesn't last.
Everybody will experience tragedy at one time or another. But not everybody will function as a victim.
What about you?
Traps Of Victimhood
1. People who function as a victim end up creating a victim reality. The world really does conform to their wishes! The more you feel like a victim, the more you become a victim. You have a tendency to keep sinking deeper and deeper.
2. Just as people tend to avoid victims, if you're a victim you'll tend to avoid *yourself*. You'll tend to avoid your 'realness'. Through pity, judgments, blame, righteousness, etc.
It separates you from yourself. Separation leads to pain. Thus, victimhood becomes a pain factory.
Victimhood is a trap. Most will never escape. Because there's nothing to grab hold of. It's like being in a mud pit. Or a swamp.
The problem is, victimhood sucks you in and it holds on tight. You start believing the lie: "You really are a victim, and you'll always be a victim. There's nothing you can do."
You become a victim to your own victimhood.
The Way Out
You've got to fi
What is in an information plan?Before you even meet with a potential customer, you should have an action plan in place. The action plan should consist of 5 areas. Each area will deal with certain aspects of any potential deal and information that will need to be gathered. Let's look at each of the areas and see what you need to learn about the client. First, the contact information for the decision maker and the personality type (we will deal with personality types later in the book). You will also need information on two other levels within the company. Who is the influencer in the situation, their name, title, and to whom they report to, plus their personality typ
So if I function as a victim, I will take any event - good or bad - and make it into something that supports my victimhood.
Some people experience horribly painful events in their lives, and turn them into something inspiring and uplifting. Lemons into lemonade.
An outside observer might see them as a victim; but they don't see themselves that way. Or if they do feel like a victim, it doesn't last.
Everybody will experience tragedy at one time or another. But not everybody will function as a victim.
What about you?
Traps Of Victimhood
1. People who function as a victim end up creating a victim reality. The world really does conform to their wishes! The more you feel like a victim, the more you become a victim. You have a tendency to keep sinking deeper and deeper.
2. Just as people tend to avoid victims, if you're a victim you'll tend to avoid *yourself*. You'll tend to avoid your 'realness'. Through pity, judgments, blame, righteousness, etc.
It separates you from yourself. Separation leads to pain. Thus, victimhood becomes a pain factory.
Victimhood is a trap. Most will never escape. Because there's nothing to grab hold of. It's like being in a mud pit. Or a swamp.
The problem is, victimhood sucks you in and it holds on tight. You start believing the lie: "You really are a victim, and you'll always be a victim. There's nothing you can do."
You become a victim to your own victimhood.
The Way Out
You've got to fi
These days, if you're starting a career as a freelance writer, it's no longer enough to ring up a few editors and distribute a few business cards. Most of the people who want to hire you will ask if you have a website. If the answer is 'no', you could lose out on some valuable sources of income. Here are five reasons why you should have a web presence.1. Developing the brand of youAs a writer, your name is your brand. People will like or hate your stuff, trust or distrust your opinions. Either way, they'll have positive or negative feelings every time they see an article with your name on it. So your job is to build editors'
2. Just as people tend to avoid victims, if you're a victim you'll tend to avoid *yourself*. You'll tend to avoid your 'realness'. Through pity, judgments, blame, righteousness, etc.
It separates you from yourself. Separation leads to pain. Thus, victimhood becomes a pain factory.
Victimhood is a trap. Most will never escape. Because there's nothing to grab hold of. It's like being in a mud pit. Or a swamp.
The problem is, victimhood sucks you in and it holds on tight. You start believing the lie: "You really are a victim, and you'll always be a victim. There's nothing you can do."
You become a victim to your own victimhood.
The Way Out
You've got to first discover your current motivation for functioning as a victim. Why is it so alluring? Why is it okay? Why does it seem to be the best option? What are you secretly getting out of victimhood? What do you not want to admit about it?
Tell yourself the truth. No one else needs to hear. (They probably already know, anyway!)
Then, you've got to find a stronger motivation to be the opposite. What's the opposite of a victim?
A fully-functioning human being. You can put various labels on it: winner, leader, etc.
But you need to find the label that makes the most sense to you.
I found my label. It suited me well. More importantly, it motivated me strongly; more than anything else would. It helped me create new neurological pathways in my brain.
But it might not be the right one for you.
The trick is to have an image - a vision - of something that represents the exact opposite of a victim. And to make it more alluring, more attractive, than the image of a victim.
You need to find *your* image. Your label. Your vision.
What gets you excited? More than anything else? What puts a smile on your face when you think about it?
Find your own unique image, and hold on to it for dear life! Make it real. Place it in your heart. Feed it so it grows stronger. Spend time daydreaming about it.
It sure beats the heck out of sucking your thumb!
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