Recognize Victim Mentality (synonym for CHM)
Do a Google search for "victim mentality."
In general, victim mentality can be recognized by the following elements:
- You complain a great deal.
- When things go wrong, you tend to blame others and/or factors outside yourself.
- You have little or no understanding of personal responsibility; you do little or nothing to upgrade yourself.
- When things go wrong, you tend to get emotional.
- When things go wrong, you tend to make false conclusions -- you tend to "dyslearn" from your negative experiences. ("Dyslearn" is the opposite of "learn" -- over time you may become progressively less competent.)
- Catastrophizing -- when small things go wrong, you inflate in your mind minor negatives into a "major catastrophe."
- Your understanding of cause and effect may be very weak -- your cognitive connections between your actions and the results you produce may have largely broken down -- see Learned Helplessness.
- Your ability to learn may have been largely or completely destroyed in some areas of your life. (My late father was a competent farmer and continued to learn more over the years. However, I suspect that outside of farming he learnt nothing useful after about his 25th year. He had a severe victim mentality, complained incessantly, and threw tantrums at the drop of a hat.)
- You may have a low level of emotional control -- a "victim of your emotions."
- You may use denial as a defense mechanism to maintain and "protect" your victim mentality. On Page 1 (right column), H.H. indicated that he was offended by the suggestion that there might be BS in his head that reduced his level of success. He denied that there was BS in his head. Based on the emails I received from H.H. over a 7-month period (including many victim-like complaints), it seems to me that H.H. suffered from a victim mentality (BS in his head), with his ability to learn impaired. (I thank H.H., because my interaction with him led to my identification of victimization as one of the world's major problems.)
- You may sabotage your own success.
- You compulsively and unconsciously play games such as "Please kick me," "Doormat," etc. -- see Programmed for Mediocrity.
- You may be gullible and easily deceived; you may believe people who present themselves as "authorities" or people you regard as "authorities": parents, teachers, preachers, professors, doctors, lawyers, politicians, bureaucrats, generals, TV anchors, journalists, used-car salesmen, etc.
- You may subject yourself to "external authorities" -- anyone or anything outside yourself you regard as an "authority" over you.
- Low self-esteem; self-doubt; lack of confidence; helplessness; depression; low-level moods.
- You may have little persistence or perseverance; you give up easily.
- You may be stubborn; you continue on an unworkable path for months or years after you should have changed direction and tried something else.
- You may have a poor sense of what works and what is workable.
- You may have unreal expectations and false hope -- V.M.'s "I am waiting for THE program that will make me recover." -- To succeed, V.M. has to upgrade himself to the point that he can operate above the "success threshold."
- You repeat the same or similar mistakes over and over... for months or even years -- V.M. serves as an example.
"When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the bull's-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim, improve yourself." -- Gilbert Arland
Benefits of Being a Victim
- Being a victim can get you attention, sympathy, and even fame.
- It can lead to others taking care of you.
- You avoid responsibility; it's someone else's fault (when you miss a target, you can blame the target).
- You can meet other victims and enjoy complaining together (misery loves company).
- It's easier to find a life partner because most prospective partners are victims (misery loves company).
- It's easier to get a job, because most employers love victims.
- You can become a member of support groups who share similar kinds of victimhood.
- You can easily join a cult; cult leaders love victims.
- You can commit a crime, get caught and convicted, and then get free board and lodging in jail.
- If you free yourself from all forms of victimhood, the typical psychologist/psychiatrist will classify you as an "alienated sociopath or psychopath"; it's better to be a victim so you can "fit into society."
- If you play "helpless victim," others may do the work you should be doing.
- Being a victim may provide you with comfort.
- You can become a "celebrity victim" and get paid millions for book/film rights.
- You can get yourself victimized and then sue your victimizer for millions.
Conclusion
The five most important guidelines for becoming more successful:
- Persist with increasing your advantages and decreasing your disadvantages, and your "quantum leap to much greater success" is virtually assured.
- Use more of your mind/brain and use it at higher levels of consciousness.
- Become aware of "games" you've been playing compulsively and unconsciously and exit them.
- Don't get trapped by any "guru" who says he has "all the answers" -- take a range of steps recommended by different people.
- Continue moving forward for the rest of your life -- advancing toward your full potential requires your deliberate, conscious, and sustained effort.
It may be worth examining how the various Success Steps covered on this page fit into:
- Becoming Someone Who Can Succeed;
- Creating your own Operating System that Works;
- Creating Empowering Core Identity Beliefs.
Becoming Someone Who Can Succeed
Until you've taken the Quantum Leap to above the Success Threshold, you remain someone who cannot succeed, someone stuck on a path that makes success impossible, typically someone with a Victim Mentality and with a Reactive-Responsive Orientation, typically someone who compulsively and unconsciously plays self-destructive games, typically someone who is dominated in some areas of his/her life by his/her Addictive Beast/Failure Voice. To become Someone Who Can Succeed you need to:
- Increase your Advantages and Reduce your Disadvantages to the point that you make the Quantum Leap to above the Success Threshold.
- Increasing Advantages includes: Increasing your Desire for Success, Supercharging Your "Alpha Mind," Rebooting your Brain, Learning to Think Right, Using Afformations, Acquiring Mechanical Skills, Swinging your Bat, Doing Things Right, Learning to Apply your Power of Choice, and switching to the Creative Orientation.
- Reducing Disadvantages includes: Overcoming the common tendency to Overestimate your Level of Competence and Making a Realistic Assessment of Where You Are, Overcoming the Influence of your Addictive Beast/Failure Voice, Becoming aware of any Self-Destructive Games you've been Playing Compulsively and Unconsciously, and Exiting Them, Handling Unwanted Life Conditions and the Stuck Identities causing them, Overcoming Health Problems and Procrastination, Overcoming Victimizations of the past and the Victim Mentality they may have caused, Overcoming Learned Helplessness, and Transcending the Reactive-Responsive Orientation.
Creating your own Operating System that Works
An Operating System that Works includes the following:
- A High-Level, Never-Ending Meta-Instruction to to Increase your Desire for Success, Increase your Advantages, and Reduce your Disadvantages.
- Utilizing Silva UltraMind Techniques.
- Regularly Rebooting your Brain.
- Continuously Improving your Knowledge, Skills, and Tools Necessary for Success.
- Replacing ALL the Negatives mentioned on this page with Positives.
- Raise your Quit Threshold, Apply the Path of Least Resistance and the Small-Step-Progression Principle.
Creating Empowering Core Identity Beliefs
I suggest you use the following from Mike Dillard of Magnetic Sponsoring as an example for creating your own Empowering Core Identity Beliefs:
- I do not fear poverty, because I will always be rich.
- Making $1,000,000 a month is not only possible, but a forgone event.
- People like, trust, and respect me.
- There is no business skill I cannot master.
- I attract Top-Tier prospects effortlessly because they can see that I share a similar reality to theirs.
What About Religion?
Some people may ask:"What aspects of religion should I include in my Success Steps?"
Answer: If you think it important or essential to include religion in your Success Steps, I suggest you accentuate and focus on the positive. You could use Joel Osteen as an example -- do a Google search for "Joel Osteen." He has written a book Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential, which I haven't read. I found the following review on Amazon.com:
"Houston televangelist Joel Osteen is well qualified to write this book, having used the seven principles he shares to achieve his own "rags-to-riches" story. At the heart of Osteen's message is that achieving a successful, prosperous life of fulfillment can only occur when we stop worrying about the past or future to make the most of each present moment by using our God-given strengths and talents to achieve our goals. The key to doing so are the seven steps Osteen outlines: Enlarge Your Vision, Develop a Healthy Self-Image, Discover the Power of Your Thoughts and Words, Let go of the Past, Find Strength Through Adversity, Live to Give, and Choose to Be Happy. Mixing biblical teachings with his own personal experiences, Osteen explains each of these seven steps in an encouraging, optimistic manner that makes them accessible to anyone interested in principles of personal growth. Although written with a Christian slant, the seven steps Osteen shares will have value to anyone wanting to know more about practical steps of self-betterment, regardless of their denomination." -- Larry Trivieri Jr.
Jim Straw says, "In order to succeed, you must first "lose" your mediocrity." It would be more accurate to say, you must first "lose" (overcome) your Core-Helplessness.
Why do people fail?
According to Jim Straw:
There has been much written, and said, about why and how people succeed. The contention being that, in order to succeed, you must learn, and then apply, the principles and techniques used by others who have gained success.
But, knowing the principles and techniques used by others who have gained success doesn't qualify a person to succeed. If it did, all of those who have read and studied the various, and many, books, booklets, plans, and programs on the subject of SUCCESS would, by virtue of their knowledge thereof, be successful.
Statistically, 98% of the people in this country never reach a level of anything more than sustained mediocrity; only 2% ever really achieve success. - WHY?
The answer is simple. - They have never "qualified" for success, because they refuse to "pay their dues."
These people (the 98%) are so wrapped-up in "protecting" and "maintaining" the level of mediocrity they have achieved that they will not risk one iota of what they have.
It's like the young boy who, at long last, got his first pair of really fine shoes.
Now, these shoes were exceptionally fine. So fine, in fact, that the boy spent many hours wiping and shining them - while keeping them safe from scuffs, neatly wrapped in paper, in their box under his bed.
A number of opportunities presented themselves for the boy to wear the shoes, but he chose to safe-guard them and wore his older shoes instead. After all, if he wore them, he would run the risk of scuffing them or dulling their glittering shine.
When the day finally arrived, when the occasion was most important, the boy learned, to his disappointment, that his feet had grown and the shoes no longer fit him. (I gave that pair of shoes to a more needy neighbor - and, from that day forward, I have never again been afraid to lose anything.)
Unfortunately, most people are like that boy. - They read all of the books, booklets, plans, and programs about the principles and techniques used by others to gain success. As the boy did with the shoes, they let the opportunities to use what they have learned pass them by - or, they make a half-hearted start, but never continue past their first small and futile attempts.
Why do they hold back? - Because they fear losing what little they have. They "protect" their meager and mediocre position so well that they never lose it.
At retirement age, those people look back with pride at the fact that they have ventured little and lost nothing. But, not unlike the boy and his shoes, they learn, to their disappointment, that that which they protected so well will not sustain them after their retirement and they are forced to seek aid and assistance from their government, family and friends.
Those people have never "qualified" for anything better, because they have never "paid their dues."
If you haven't, yet, gained success, look around you. What are you protecting? If you lost it all tomorrow, would you really lose anything of great value?
People fail, not because they cannot succeed, but because they are unwilling to risk what they have. They "protect" their mediocrity until it is all they have left.
The struggle to achieve success is not unlike any great battle in any war. -- The victorious army is always the one that gives-up the position it has won in order to advance against a better, more advantageous position. Only the losing army stands and defends a mediocre position.
A young Lieutenant once asked a wise General, "Why should we try so hard to reach a position at the top of the hill? As we charge up the hill, our enemies will surely take the positions behind us, and we will lose what we have gained; even if we take the hill."
The General, a very wise man, replied, "Yes - but, it is much easier to charge down-hill. When we have taken the higher position, we will charge back down the hill and recover all that we have lost. Then, we will charge down the other side of the hill."
The people who make up the 2% that achieve success are forever charging up the hill - losing all behind them - and then charging back down the hill, on both sides, to regain anything they may have lost and achieve even more success.
Not unlike the losing army, most people will never succeed, because it would mean that they would have to give-up the mediocre position they have protected for so long.
In order to succeed, you must first "lose" your mediocrity. - Success doesn't happen any other way...
J.F. (Jim) Straw
PHLANDER Company
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Dalton, GA 30721-8127Are YOU making enough money?
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If you don't overcome your Core-Helplessness (if applicable), nothing else you do is likely to QUALIFY yourself for success. If you suffer from CHM, "just do it" is extremely unlikely to propel you toward success.
You gotta do it!
According to Jim Straw:
There is NO "secret" to success. -- And, that's the problem.
Most people who say they want to succeed, go around all their life looking for some "secret" that people like me are sure to know. They just know that if they ever learn that "secret" they will be successful, too. -- Ain't gonna happen because there ain't any secret.
All they need to do is start "doing" something. -- That's all it takes. -- Once they start "really" doing something ... other than searching for the "secret" to success ... whatever they are doing will expand and grow into the success for which they couldn't find the secret.
Over the past nearly 50 years in business, I have heard it thousands upon thousands of times from "success secret seekers" ...
"I ain't gonna get into no nickle and dime business. I want to make millions, not nickles and dimes."
So, they keep buying what they think are "secrets". They never "do" anything, longer than it takes to find out they didn't learn any secrets, they just learned how to "work" at something ... instead of making them rich. Then, they go on to the next "secret," hoping against hope that the new secret will "give" them the riches they seek (without doing anything other than knowing the "secret").
The funny thing is, they all seem to think they are better than me ... and all the other successful people ... because they honestly think that I just woke up one morning, learned the secret, and made a fortune. When, in pure fact, I started selling nickle and dime items, door to door, in my youth ... selling one item to one customer, one sale at a time, making a nickle or a dime on each sale.
As I matured, my endeavors expanded and grew ... changed course ... adapted to the ever changing economy ... moved onward and upward. Each instance of my growth predicated upon providing what my potential customers needed or wanted. Making sure that I gave more value in return for the value I received - and - even today, I still sell one item to one customer, one sale at a time.
The VAST MAJORITY of people who say they want to succeed, only want to succeed if they can make it all at once ... just one sale won't do it. They want big sales, or thousands of sales, immediately. -- So, when a new opportunity only produces a few sales, they move on rather than making those few sales over and over and over and over ... until those few sales have grown into thousands upon thousands of sales.
Most of them are looking for someone to help them do it, rather than looking for the tools they need to do it themselves.
If you want to succeed, "do" something. Let what you are "doing" lead you onward and upward until you have the success you seek. -- There are NO "secrets" to it.
J.F. (Jim) Straw
PHLANDER Company
2310 First Street N.E.
Dalton, GA 30721-8127P.S. -- Many people know the facts. -- Many people have the talent. -- Many people have the need. -- Many people have what it takes. -- But ... very, very few succeed because they are seeking the "secret" to success rather than doing something.
"The work will teach you how to do it." -- Estonian Proverb
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Simpleology includes some important information on increasing your energy.
Raise Your Energy Level
In addition to the suggestions in Food, Mood and Money under Mood Levels, I recommend the "Five Tibetan Rites," not only as energy-boosting exercises, but also for their health and longevity benefits. (On Amazom.com, check out: Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth: Book 1 by Peter Kelder and The Five Tibetans: Five Dynamic Exercises for Health, Energy, and Personal Power by Christopher S. Kilham.)
About two thousand years ago, a group of Tibetan monks developed the Five Tibetan Rites by condensing 21 yoga exercises into 5 exercises that can be completed in 10-20 minutes a day.
For thousands of years, healing practitioners have maintained that the body has seven principal energy centers which correspond to the seven endocrine glands. These centers are also called "chakras." The Tibetan Rites help normalize hormonal balances between the chakras, thereby improving health, vitality, and slowing down the aging process.
Regular practice of these exercises relieves muscular tension and nervous stress, improves respiration and digestion, benefits the cardiovascular system, and leads to deep relaxation and well-being. The Five Tibetan Rites can be a powerful vehicle not only for enlivening the senses but also for generating and harnessing vital energy for self-transformation.
When all the endocrine glands are functioning in harmony, a person has more energy, more vitality, and less discomfort. Often when one gland is not functioning correctly, so too the other glands are not communicating properly with each other. Balanced hormones also tend to "rev up" Your sexual energy. Also, when the hormones are out of balance, you're more prone to mood swings and illness..
Following are some more benefits that have beed ascribed to the Five Tibetan Rites:
- Enhance bone mass.
- Improved muscle tone.
- Reduce midriff bulge and tighten abs.
- Oxygenate the body; increase your rate of metabolism; means weight loss.
- Drain lymph system -- as they compress and stretch the various organs, glands, and muscles, the exercises help drain the lymph system -- result: You flush toxins faster, detoxing your body.
- Improved posture.
- Flexes the spine -- aids spinal health -- by doing the Tibetans daily, you may experience greater flexibility in your joints and muscles and joints.
- A general "pick-me-up" -- the Tibetans stimulate the reticular activating system of the brain and balance the right and left hemispheres of the brain -- result: You think better and more clearly and can more easily integrate your creativity with your logical rational thoughts.
The Five Tibetan Rites
Acknowledgment: This information has been adapted from http://www.10ac.com/five_tibetan_rites.htm.
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Rite 1 - Whirling Dervish Stand erect with arms outstretched, horizontal to the floor. Spin around clockwise, until you become slightly dizzy. For a recovery posture, click here. |
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Rite 2 - Neck-Legs Flexion First, lie flat on the floor, face up. Fully extended your arms along your sides, and place the palms of your hands against the floor, keeping the fingers close together. Then, raise your head off the floor, tucking the chin against the chest. For a recovery posture, click here. |
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Rite 3 - Kneeling Posture Kneel on the floor, with the body erect. The hands should be placed against the thigh muscles. Incline the head and neck forward, tucking the chin against the chest. Then, throw the head and neck backward, arching the spine. For a recovery posture, click here. |
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Rite 4 - Table Sit down on the floor with your legs straight out in front of you and your feet about 12 inches apart. With the trunk of the body erect, place the palms of your hands on the floor alongside the buttocks. Then, tuck the chin forward against the chest. Now, drop the head backward as far as it will go. At the same time, raise your body so that the knees bend while the arms remain straight. For a recovery posture, click here. |
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Rite 5 - Up/Down Dog When you perform the fifth rite, your body will be face-down to the floor. It will be supported by the hands, palms down against the floor, and the toes in a flexed position. Throughout this rite, the hands and feet should be kept straight. Start with your arms perpendicular to the floor, and the spine arched, so that the body is in a sagging position. For a recovery posture, click here. |
Rite 1 - Recovery Posture: Standing, for a few breaths, looking straight ahead (with eyes either open or closed), with the palms of the hands gently pressing the back of the thighs, helps to alleviate the momentary dizziness that is created, by the Whirling Dervish.
Rite 2 - Recovery Posture: This posture produces a fine amount of stretch, which will be similar to the position that is held at the end of the Table (Rite 4).
- Lie on your back, while stretching your legs out lengthwise, for a couple of breaths
- Raise your hands above your head
- Bring the soles of your feet together (outer ankles lying on floor), while resting them on the floor-pull them up toward your pelvis
- Lace your fingers together, above your head; at this time extend your index fingers, into a "steeple" configuration
- Raise the crown of your head, thereby straigtening your neck
- While stretching your fingers and arms, allow your knees to relax outward, toward the floor, stretching the inner thighs and hips
- Breathe deeply and fully, while relaxing.
Rite 3 - Recovery Posture: As you complete this exercise:
- Remain on your knees and bring your toes together, behind you
- Allow your body to flex forward
- With our knees separated a bit
- Rest your elbows together, between your knees
- Place one fist (along the outer "knife" edge of your hand) on the floor
- Place the other fist onto the thumb side of the first wrist
- Place your forehead on your combined fists
- Take 3-4 deep full relaxed breaths
- Allow your spine and pelvis to continue relaxing downward, into the floor
- Feel for the continued stretch, within your spine, pelvis, and hips (ooh, aah....).
Rite 4 - Recovery Posture: This posture produces a fine amount of stretch, at the end of the Table.
- Lie on your back, while stretching your legs out lengthwise
- Raise your hands above your head
- Lace your fingers together, above your head; at this time extend your index fingers, into a "steeple" configuration
- Raise the crown of your head, thereby straightening your neck
- Now stretch your full extremities in opposite directions
- While stretching, cross one ankle over the other (for a couple of breaths), and then repeat, for the opposite ankle
Rite 5 - Recovery Posture: A comfortable stretching posture is pleasant, for the end of this exercise:
- Close your eyes and breath deep full breaths, in and out
- Relax your hands, while resting them on the floor, in their original position
- Gently start to sit back on your heels
- Let your head drop toward your chest
- As you sit back, allow your hands to drag on the floor; providing a sense of stretch to your upper body and down your spine
- Take 3-4 deep breaths, while resting in this stretching posture
Reboot Your Brain
John Reese was on a path that led him to a stage in his life where he was over $108,000 in debt. He felt depressed and suicidal. Then he stumbled on a "procedure" that enabled him to change direction to a new path that made success possible. He turned his life around, became a well-known and respected Internet marketer and a millionaire. He has since, over a period of about 15 years, refined the initial procedure into a "comprehensive method" you can literally use to "reboot your brain!"
In Step #1, I suggested an "online moneymaking scale" with a range of -10 to 0 to +10. I suggested that if you've been trying to make money online for some time, and you've been breaking even (overall neither making nor losing money), then you could rate yourself as "zero." If you've been earning $1,000 a month, you could rate yourself at "1." If you've been earning $10,000 a month or more, you could rate yourself at "10." If you've been losing money, then you should rate yourself with a negative number, depending on how much you've lost. If you rate yourself below "10" (i.e., earning less that $10,000 a month), then you may want to seriously consider "rebooting your brain!"
John Reese - Reboot Your Brain
I want to emphasize some important points:
- In addition to making more money, you can use the reboot-your-brain method to improve any area of your life.
- The biggest improvements come from getting your mind right at a deep level -- essentially the same point made by Mike Dillard in Step #2.
- There may be hundreds of "thoughts stuck in your brain." These "stuck thoughts" cause stress and anxiety, and reduce your ability to make good decisions. (Such "stuck thoughts" may also constitute some of the "BS in H.H.'s head" referred to above.) Generally, you're unaware of many of the "stuck thoughts" -- rebooting your brain brings them to awareness and enables you to "dump" them.
- The more action you take, doing things, the more results (failures and successes) you produce. All your results are assets because you can learn from them (both failures and successes). Paradoxically, "failing fast and often" is an important operating procedure -- more on this in Step #17: ("Fail Fast") Take Action, Produce Results (Successes or Failures), Learn from the Results, and Apply What You Learn to Take More Effective Action.
- You can achieve an ongoing progression of incremental improvement.
- Reboot your brain at least once a month!
Do Rational Recovery's® "Addictive Voice Recognition Technique®" Crash Course
Doing Rational Recovery's® "Addictive Voice Recognition Technique®" Crash Course may be a watershed for you -- a major turning point in your life -- THE action that begins your advance to above the "success threshold" (or much higher above the success threshold, if you've already been operating above it).
Note if there's an "automatic thought" in your head along the lines, "I don't need this; it's a waste of time!" If you experience such a thought or hear such a "voice in your head," chances are that it's your "Addictive Voice."
It takes only only about 20-30 minutes to do the "Addictive Voice Recognition Technique®" Crash Course. Do it now by clicking here and following the "Recover Now" link. Whether or not you're addicted to alcohol and/or drugs, it's vital that you do the "Addictive Voice Recognition Technique®" Crash Course.
About 98% of people trying to make money online enjoy little or no success. If you're one of them, you may be addicted to things like negativity, a negative attitude, unproductive thought patterns, self-defeating habits, etc. -- factors that may play a major role in persistent failure. By doing the "Addictive Voice Recognition Technique®" Crash Course, you can begin the process of moving yourself over the "success threshold." You can do it now by clicking here.
The "conventional addiction theory" is that "addiction is a disease." The "rational recovery theory" is that addiction is a choice. You have power of choice. You can choose to have another drink or not. You have the power to choose to never again drink alcohol. If you're addicted to cigarettes, you have the power to choose to stop smoking at any time... and then to stop immediately.
Note that the conventional addiction theory says that you're a victim at the effect or mercy of a disease. On the other hand, the rational recovery theory says that you're in control... you have the power of choice... you can change your behavior at any time. The conventional theory is disempowering; the rational theory is empowering.
Do a Google search for +addiction +choice.
What do you think of the distinction between "Your Beast" and "The Real You?" Have you been a victim of your "Beast Voice?"
It may be worth taking another look at the email from "R.T." to me:
"In all I've tried, I haven't made anything work. I'm not worth s_ _t for anything.
I cannot...
- Find qualified leads/prospects;
- Sponsor/recruit anyone into anything;
- Market, locate, refer, sign-up, teach, mentor, or anything.
I've been searching, reading, and studying. I've seen sooooooooooo much, but I still know Nothing!
I'm sad, depressed, obsessed, and fruitless..."
You do the "Addictive Voice Recognition Technique®" Crash Course so you get to realize when thoughts like the above go around in your head, they come from "Your Beast" and not from the "Real You." You repeat the Crash Course until you're no longer the victim of your "beast voice," "addictive voice," or "failure voice." Success will become more likely for R.T. when his "Real I" does his thinking.