FIVE PEOPLE YOU MUST AVOID
There are 5 people you must avoid. Yes! 5, who you must do your best to keep away from:
1. Those who self-sabotage
2. Those who see your troubles as an opportunity for gain and perpetuate your vulnerability to their own benefit.
3. Those who hurt you in order to win the admiration of others
4. Those who make promises only so they can get what they need for the moment. They never forget the promise. They just never meant it.
5. Those who pollute you with their bitterness and demand that you hate what they hate.
BEWARE OF PEOPLE WHO SELF-SABOTAGE.
There are people who have built a pattern of errors around themselves. They pin themselves down through the challenges they create around themselves. They keep messing things up, expecting that others will clean up after them.
They manifest through greed, lack of discipline, insensitivity towards the needs of others, disregarding priorities at the least entrance of relief/comfort and recklessness with the knowledge they have of self.
People who self-sabotage never progress and would usually drag the people around them down with them. Money covers it only for a while, but there are many challenges in life that money cannot resolve.
Self-sabotage is suicide by installments. Note that the situations they create are not mistakes, but a pattern of behavior whose result they benefit from, but which leaves trails of trouble in the long run.
Be careful about what you suffer for. Like the lesson in the story of the 10 virgins, self sabotage can make you lose opportunities/privileges that life and time creates for you, if you don't know when to say no, enough, this far and no further, I can't or I won't bail you out this time, etc.
To be continued...
Excerpt from MASTERING THE SHADES OF BETRAYAL, Vol 2.