Victim Mentality

Friends, today I want to help you move further in your journey to success and happiness. Break the chains of the victim mentality, and succeed in life.

A victim mentality can bring you down, and keep you from reaching your goals in life. A victim mentality can even cause a person to feel as if they deserve to fail.

A victim mentality is one where you always see yourself as a victim, and blame everyone or everything else for anything that happens in your own life. If you don’t succeed, it is someone else’s fault, or some other problem stopped you from getting there. I am sure that we all know at least one person that has a victim mentality. These people always have an excuse for why something didn’t happen, blame their upbringing for their lack of success, and things of this nature. I know it is tough to deal with, but you could be sabotaging yourself by doing this. I know, this may be a bit tough to think about, but it is important in your journey to success.

I believe that people can free themselves by taking these 3 simple step:

1. Forgive, Forgive
Forgive those that you feel are holding you back. They really aren’t holding you back, so holding a grudge against them is not accomplishing anything. The fact that your boss didn’t give you the promotion may have more to do with perspective than with a grudge he or she is holding against you.

2. The World Doesn’t Owe You
Realize that the World does not owe you anything. You must go after what you want. Thinking that everyone else owes you something because you have less than someone else won’t solve anything – going after what you want is the only way you will get it. Regardless of what lot you drew in life, you cannot expect everyone to trip over themselves to give you what you want. No one said life was fair – deal with it.

3. You Are Responsible For Yourself
You may have been mistreated, abused, or pushed around, but that is no excuse not to try to pull yourself out of this cycle and move on. We all have a past, and perhaps you could not control it – but the present and future are yours to mold. If you don’t mold your future, someone else will, as may have been the case with your past…and it may not be to your liking.

The victim mentality is a vicious cycle, and you cannot break it if you are constantly in a state of being a victim and feeling sorry for yourself. Breaking free of this cycle will help you succeed in life. Keep trying and working at it – make it your goal to overcome this, and you will be able to move forward.