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How I escaped the victim mentality trance
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How I escaped the victim mentality trance

This blog is inspired by my automatic victimhood response, I no longer wish to keep. Without realising, I have victim mentality for as long as I remember. A victim mentally is when you allow someone else to dictate your emotions and blame them for it. For example, if someone looks at you in the street,

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matilda, danny devito, shiny
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Beware the promises of shiny people

Have you ever wondered what is it that causes some people to be successful and other people to constantly have dramas, problems and business deals that go wrong? You are doing everything correctly yet things are going wrong. Why is it? What is going wrong? There I was at a birthday party enjoying the company

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Laura Timm, Ben Chai, Success Coach
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Laura Timm: From corporate job to entrepreneur

One aspect of being successful that we emphasise at Five Years To Financial Freedom is to follow your passion. Laura Timm’s dream was to come to the UK and make it big. First in a job, then as an entrepreneur running her own businesses. You can imagine the types of challenges Laura had to face in just beginning

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9 reasons I was lucky to lose my job

It was going so well! After eight months of teaching English in Korea, I felt that I was really getting into the rhythm of life. My daily schedule had been perfected, my routines turned firmly into habits, I had tamed the choppy waters and was sailing smooth. Then the boss calls me into his office.

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The gift of betrayal part 2: The gifts

“The gift of betrayal” part two is a supplement to part 1 so don’t read further until you’ve read The Gift of Betrayal Part I. “.. We live in a world of hypocrisy, where people greet you with a smile whilst holding a knife in your back, where people hide their true intentions to “survive,” and this life

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The gift of betrayal

“The gift of betrayal” seems almost like an oxymoron. Our alternative article title “betrayers, liars and cheaters are your best friends” seemed equally hard to swallow. So to start, I thought I’d share my perspective and why I wanted to write about the gift of betrayal. The gift of betrayal in poetry The Gift of Betrayal was triggered by a

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