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512-5-80-9305. Today, I'm going to talk to you about why you should stop being a victim

and having a victim mindset in your life and how it's going to be holding you back.

And I definitely had a victim mindset when I was younger. And so I can speak to this. It's

something that I really had to work through because I used to be really, really good at making

myself the victim. And I would say stuff like, oh, I always have bad luck or just things don't

really work out for me or things, things out for better people, you know, for other people.

Other people get lucky, but I have bad luck. Or I would make excuses for everything in my life

and I would take no responsibility for basically anything. And the problem

is that most people are not really even aware that they're using and playing the victim. It's just

something they've been doing for so long. It's something they picked up in childhood. And so it requires

self-awareness within ourself to notice it. But the biggest problem with playing the victim

is that if you play the victim, it completely takes all of the control out of your life. If you're

constantly blaming other people or the economy or other circumstances, everybody else, then

you have no control in your life. If you make yourself a victim, you're basically

resigning to the fact of like, I can't control my life and I'm just at the whim of whatever the

universe wants to beat me over the head with. If you're listening to this podcast, you want your

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