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The Empowerment Dynamic: A Top Tool for Affiliate Marketers

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At the the end of my last post I said I was going to flip the Drama Triangle on its head and take a look at the Empowerment Dynamic. The Empowerment Dynamic is the work of David Emerald. After a series of challenging life events he was moved to explore the Drama Triangle designed by Stephen Karpmann. This got him to thinking about the roles of persecutor, victim and rescuer and how they brought forward a mindset of fear and anxiety.

He found this negative dynamic in himself as a victim. Why then,  could he not turn it on its head to provide a more positive outlook on life. What he came up with was TED. The Empowerment Dynamic. The sides on this Triangle are Coach, Challenger, and Creator. Each of these are vital qualities when it comes to affiliate marketing.

Empowerment

Empowerment

Emerald could see as he looked at the Drama Triangle the roles of persecutor, victim and rescuer created a merry-go-round of angst a downward spiral if a person could get out of the maelstrom of fear and anxiety. It may seem that the rescuer might have some redeeming qualities but if comes from a sense of need and the need isn’t met then the rescuer move into victimhood. Nothing empowering going on here.

Empowerment means accepting control for all aspects of your your growth. I prefer to put myself in the middle of the Dynamic and see each side as a facet of myself. These qualities are then easier to internalise and make one’s own.

Empowerment allows us to assume a challenge from something outside of ourselves, or to create a challenge from within ourselves that will move our lives or businesses forward. That immediately brings the creator into play. In order to be empowered to advance this idea we need to work out the resources required.

If there is something missing we may need to seek some assistance for the project. We may need to find a coach for ourself or we may need to coach others to empower them for their part of the project.

Learning something new is empowerment. It gives us new options, the ability to forge a new path for our life. My finding affiliate marketing and Wealthy Affiliate has enabled me to cut a new trail for myself. Wealthy Affiliate is the most complete platform I’ve found for affiliate marketers on the web. It provides all the sides of the Empowerment Dynamic for anyone willing to follow the system. You will become a Creator. Wealthy Affiliate will challenge you and coach you. You could become a Coach yourself showing others how to follow its methodology.

Coach

coach

What qualities would we be looking for in a coach?

We may expect him to be an expert in the particular field we need assistance with. You may hold that very expertise yourself and share it with someone else on order to move the project forward. This would enable you to maintain perspective on other features of the project. To keep a wide angle view of things.

If we’re looking at qualities of a coach there maybe attributes he is looking for in you. He or she will be looking for people that are teachable or coachable. They’ll be looking for someone who can be accountable. That will put a line in the sand and stick to it.

The very features we are looking for in a coach and mentor are more than likely aspects they’ll be looking for in us. Humility, honesty, trust, respect, empathy, willingness to share and to learn. Not only will we be looking to them for motivation, they may be looking at us to see how we motivate others.

In the empowerment dynamic the coach is the antidote to the rescuer. The rescuer’s interventions come from a place of thinking they have the answers to everything. A coach uses curiosity to move his client towards his own answers, to his own solutions. When you do this the solution or answer is more deeply embedded into the clients consciousness.

Creator

creator

David Emerald who came up with the Empowerment Dynamic, says the Creator is the consciousness that grows when we tire of or begin to see through the futility of being a victim. The victim allows life to happen to them and then demands of life, “Why are you doing this to me?”

The creator allows life in all its facets. Perhaps life throws them a challenge. They respond by creating a solution to the challenge and then moving on to the next thing. When we allow life, it becomes a blank canvas and our response to challenges is the paint we daub onto it. Its a whiteboard on which we sketch our plan and then adjust as required.

A victim bases his reaction to life on what happened in the past, “Why does this always happen to me?” The creator might come across a similar event and develops a response to it that will empower him to move beyond it.

A creator will fashion something of beauty. She’ll be the person who makes lemonade from lemons and then sells it from a stall on the street. To the victim the lemon will just be something sour on his tongue.

Our life preferences can become addictive. Victimhood is a preference. At the time we took it on it may have seemed a natural consequence of events. But was it? Perhaps we weren’t able to check in with ourselves at the time; or maybe we had no one that listened to us when we were seeking answers. It may have been the Big Boys don’t Cry syndrome, or the Suck It Up and move on syndrome.

If our life preferences are addictive I think I want to be addicted to being a creator. When you’re a creator you have options. Instead of the light at the end being an oncoming train perhaps as a creator you can be the driver of the train heading towards the light of day.

Challenger

challenger

They say there’s a fine line between pleasure and pain. In the Empowerment Dynamic I’d say there’s a fine line between its Challenger and the Persecutor in the Drama Triangle. We have to be so careful when communicating a challenge that we don’t overstep the mark and venture into persecution territory. As I had begun to think about this section I was introduced to an article on feedback at Strategy + Business. It makes for very interesting reading.

It would be easier to pose a question to someone you are challenging in order to get a feel for how they’ll accept a challenge. An unsolicited challenge is likely to turn them off and send them ducking for cover even if that is within their consciousness. They may throw an invisibility cloak over their sensitivities and not be open to anything you might say.

It is easier as a challenger to be invited to give feedback than to just put it out there. In this case some will just turn off. I remember a few times being given feedback and because it was given by someone who I trusted I had to sit down and deeply think about it. I definitely had to push pause and rewind. And then considering. Is this really who I appear to be to another human being. Is what I’m doing serving my best interests.

Often when we’re reaching beyond the glass ceiling in our lives we butt right up against the feeling of being a fraud. What right have I to put these ideas out there? What if someone catches me out? The heart will give us the answer to that.

Whenever I have to look at my failures I gain a deeper sense of humility. Failures are a great source of challenge to our status quo. They are an immediate reality check to our beliefs.

One of the things I find the thought of intensely challenging is the concept of 360degree feedback.

I heard about this while listening to Take it to the Next Level by Marshall Goldsmith. He is an executive coach with an interesting way of working with clients. He’ll only get paid if the coaching is successful. The people he works with are on the threshold of becoming top level executives.

He takes his clients through this 360degree feedback.They seek feedback from managers, reports, family, friends, church, hobbies etc. getting a complete picture of how this person is in all area of this life. There is on place to hide. Talk about a challenge.

When I find someone whose not afraid of challenging me in a sensitive and appropriate fashion then I heed what they have to say. These guys are the Values Police and hold us to a higher order.

What am I doing and where am I doing it?

where am I going?

As a person seeking authority in my niche as an affiliate marketer I must ensure that what I put out there is in the best interests of my audience. The Empowerment Dynamic offers me a framework for this. I use these tools to check in with myself first. Am I embodying these qualities in myself before I ask them of someone else?

What am I doing and where am I doing it? I am using the Wealthy Affiliate platform to structure my offering. The platforms within the overall platform encompass the empowerment attributes of coach, challenger and creator.

They have a feedback platform where you can ask for an evaluation of your website. You are able to ask for comments for particular pages and posts in their Site Comments function. In either of these arenas you may receive advice that may be challenging to you.

Their Blogging platform, Site Content and training functions offer you the ability to bring your creator to the fore. You can make a difference not only in your own life but also in the lives of your audience.

When we’re writing posts in Site Content and providing information for someone wishing to buy a product or service, we need to think about possible objections they may have. Any objection is a challenge to what the seller believes about his product. So consider this carefully.

And finally you can seek coaching, not only through following the different trainings that become available on a daily basis, but you can also ask questions. Those questions you can turn over to the community to receive answers. So you may get a range of answers to sort through and find what fits best for you. Finally there is the Live Chat. 24/7 there are people online to connect with and seek help from if required. It’s a community that looks after their own.

Summing up: The Drama Triangle & The Empowerment Dynamic

In this and the previous post I have discussed these two tools as being useful for affiliate marketers.

I see the Drama triangle being a powerful tool as long it is used with a sense of detachment. It is a tool of Self Knowledge. Witness events that happen to you or you are involved with through its lens. Try not to see yourself in the tool.

It was Zig Ziglar that said, “Failure is an event, not a person.” With detachment we can see that these events whether they be a personal challenge or a glitch in the matrix of your hobby or niche, are happenings that can advance your business when you use them as examples for your audience. Yes, you may have felt persecuted or a victim to events. You may felt those who rush to rescue were interfering.

Use it simply to uncover the reason you’re focusing on this particular area or product and then use this knowledge to provide great service to your niche.

The Empowerment Dynamic is a tool of integrity. It moves our communication from past to present and future. Where the Drama Triangle often dwells in what happened before, the tools of Coach, Challenger, and Creator are firmly planted in the present and sowing the seeds of empowerment for the futuresumming up

Blessings

the drama triangle

The Drama Triangle: How to use it in Affiliate Marketing

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The Drama Triangle arose from the therapeutic method of Transactional Analysis (TA) the where the client’s social interactions are analyzed by the therapist. From a social perspective it was thought that in any interaction the client inhabits either a child-like parent-like or an adult persona.

Transactional Analysis

TA grew out of the work of Eric Berne who proposed that the client through childhood and adolescence develops scripts and life-plans that inform their relationships with others. These are expressed through their ego states and as mentioned before their social transactions.

These transactions became pattern-like and he referred to them as games. Each side of the social transaction would be seeking to win. Hence, we now have the whole win-win and win-lose scenarios. How each side conducted themselves in these interactions is by presenting as Child, Parent, or Adult.

Stephen Karpmann further added to these ideas with his development of the Drama Triangle. To him the three corners of the triangle represented the Persecutor, the Victim (not in the traditional sense but as in feeling like a victim) and the Rescuer.

How can this help us in the field of Affiliate Marketing?

The Drama Triangle’s Victim

victim

One of the things an affiliate marketer looks at when he or she is deciding on a niche is, did they have a problem they had to solve? They can then find products they used in their solution and market them through the content they produce?

If an affiliate marketer has a problem, at some point they felt “Poor Me”, victimized by the difficulty they experienced. If you’ve ever had a challenge, a disease, or an obstacle, you want to find an answer to it and grow past it.

Even if as affiliate marketer you are focusing on your passions, you probably suffered through some setback that created an obstacle to your enjoyment of the pastime. Again something you needed to find an answer to find your way back to your happy place.

Some marketers have had health challenges they’ve had to find cures for, or ways to live with the challenges when it left them with a permanent disability. Those cures and the systems they developed to live comfortably with their disability become the products they used to combat their persecutor.

The Drama Triangle’s Persecutorpersecutors

These problems, obstacles, set backs and challenges are our persecutors. It makes our job easier if the persecutors are things in the external world. A bit more difficult if they reside within us as procrastination, lack of motivation. When this happens, we can become our own worst enemies.

The times that “It’s all your fault” rings in your ears can be debilitating and sometimes send you into a bit of a downward spiral. Luckily each day is a clean slate and the persecutors can be put behind us.

As we grow into our business more challenges will come up to persecute and victimize us. All these become opportunities to further our story and create more traction for the market.

Any means we use to overcome our persecutors can potentially become a product to market through an affiliate system.

The Drama Triangle’s Rescuer

rescuer

What we use to conquer our persecutors, whether they lie within or are external manifestations, becomes our rescuer. They can see we’re a victim being set upon by our persecutor and come to save us.

Negative self talk is something I’ve come up against as I been navigating the field of affiliate marketing. It was only this morning that I was doing it again. Wondering whether what I was writing for this post was any good or not.

This is a perfect example of the Drama Triangle at work. I’m bullying myself about my credentials to put this information out. I become a victim to my own sense of self-worth. Then in turn I notice what I’m doing to my esteem and have to pull myself up, give myself a swift kick in the behind and jump right in and get on with it.

No I wasn’t blocked. Yes I’m actually OK. And yes I have something to say here that may be of use to an audience who are going through a similar situation. By recognizing when I’m getting into that funk and revving myself up with a little positive vibe and self talk I come back to the good space where I’m open and listening to the possibilities coming through.

I then take some action. Sitting down at the computer and tapping out a few good words is good to keep the motivation flowing. You realize – “YOU CAN DO THIS”

Resolution

resolution

We’re almost continually going through this process of persecutor, victim, rescuer especially when the percentage of our negative self talk is actually higher than our positive self talk. The cycle is always seeking resolution. We need to be vigilant, and switch to the positive when we feel the negative taking hold. And then to take a positive action to cement the change in our mindset.

When challenge is going on internally for us, yes, we can play all parts of the triangle. When it is going on in the external world, though we may be the victim and rescuer, the persecutor makes its presence felt. We may also experience the rescuer in our day to day reality.

I was ready to venture down the path of affiliate marketing and had tried a couple of opportunities that never developed traction for me. I can’t even remember how it happened but I was reading a blog or email and the site Wealthy Affiliate was mentioned.

I followed the clue and discovered one of the most valuable corners of the internet there. They have platforms for training, blogging, domains, websites, SEO, creating content, and comments. Everything you could need to begin your journey into affiliate marketing.

I wouldn’t say they came to my rescue, because once you begin you have to become your own rescuer by utilizing the wealth of material on their site. I found my rescue in them.

Aside from the rescuer both the victim and the persecutor have a negative connotation. In the next post I’ll flip the triangle on its head and we’ll look at “The Empowerment Dynamic” – challenger, creator and coach.

Blessings

stories we tell ourselves

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

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The stories we tell ourselves are part of a never-ending story. I apologize if it sounds cliched or that I stole the opening from a movie.

Our entry into this existence came about through the story our parents were telling each other at the time. It may or may not have been a love story. Whatever it was, it set us on a path, and as we grew we added to our stories.

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

the stories we tell ourselves

Some of the stories we tell ourselves remain finished, complete, and left in the past. A door closed and then another opened onto a new story or a new chapter of the same story.

Other stories we have carried, or perhaps they carry us through the seasons of our lives. Some of these stories we may be unconscious of and yet are to our benefit. Or perhaps they are dogging our steps in the world to our detriment.

At night our dreams tell us stories. We daydream stories. These stories enlarge our sense of self and are ways of knowing ourselves. Through the stories, we’re creating meaning for ourselves.

When people are talking to us often we’re hearing just snippets, we’re hearing what we want to hear. And from those snippets we create stories.  This means something good, that means something else. And at times we don’t question what we’re hearing in case we’ve heard it wrong. We may be more interested in what we’re telling ourselves than checking in to make sure we actually know what is going on.

We tell ourselves stories about our businesses, too. I recall a story told by a motivational speaker about a meeting he had with a businesswoman. This particular speaker used to chew his fingernails quite severely. On the verge of signing the contract, the businesswoman discovered these unattractive fingernails and pulled the plug on the deal. She stated she couldn’t do business with someone who didn’t have the discipline to care for their fingernails.

In her mind, she was telling herself a story about this other businessman and perhaps missed out on a lucrative opportunity.

Stories that Don’t Serve Usstories that don't serve us

It is entirely possible that we think 50,000 to 70,000 thoughts per day according to estimations based on scientific research. And nearly 80% of these are probably negative. Given that, do we really have a chance to be positive human beings? Thank goodness we are not our thoughts and most of them we may be barely conscious of as they sail through our minds. Even so, the negative thoughts that are captured in the middle of this constant flow are creating stories, stories that don’t serve us.

We may have inherited these stories from our parents, grandparents, siblings, relatives, friends, teachers, and further down the track bosses, spouses, religion. When we notice our minds playing back these stories we need to stop and check that it is actually our story. If it is, then we need to process it further. Do we think it is true? If it isn’t, then we can reject it or perhaps it needs to be reframed to provide an outcome that is beneficial rather than detrimental to our life path.

Empowering Storiesempowering stories

For all those negative thoughts there are at least a few thoughts or memories that we can look back fondly on. The beautiful thing about these memories is that our mind accepts them as real at that moment. We don’t have to be physically experiencing something empowering to reap the benefits of the event.

By bringing any empowering event from our past or imagining something empowering we wish for our future our mind will produce the associated feeling in our bodies. In fact the HeartMath has a piece of research that proves the benefits of re-experiencing positive emotions. They found the levels of both DHEA (the vitality hormone) and ImmunoglobulinA (IgA) were raised by focusing on encouraging thoughts.

So when we catch ourselves descending into to negativity we can arrest the downward spiral. By bringing to our imagination an empowering story we can change our minds and hearts and bring a sense of wellbeing into the moment. The story I mentioned previously about the fingernail chewer has a parallel in my own life. I remember I also used to chew my fingernails. It wasn’t until I saw someone who chewed their fingernails worse than me that I stopped. I used the leverage of the sight of the fingers to provide me with the impetus to resist chewing my nails anymore.

Reframing our Stories

reframing our stories

We can leverage our stories through reframing. By looking at our growing edges as challenges rather problems. Reframing our stories can build bridges for us across gaps in our thinking and believing. It can provide the impetus to scale and achieve greater rewards for not only ourselves, but also our customers.

Often we need to seek an outside perspective. Being in the thick of things we sometimes can’t see the forest for the trees. Having a mentor in this instance can be invaluable. Or sourcing a coach.

These stories that need reframing may not only be related to our business. There are other areas of our lives that could require the services of a coach or mentor. Relationships, our finances, our physical fitness needs, spiritual or mental states may need some inspiration.

Creating Meaning

creating meaning

The stories we hear from others and the stories we tell ourselves need to be checked for meaning. What we hear is filtered through our minds and compared to our experience then we add meaning like we add sugar to coffee. To oftentimes sweeten the message.

What we accept as a meaning may not be the meaning intended by the person we’re communicating with. It can be more prudent to communicate with questions rather than making statements about what we thought we heard. Then we can be sure when creating meaning we’re not in error, that we heard is what was meant.

Creating meaning around communication and experience involves looking at the events from different perspectives to ensure we’ve captured the essence of what happened and are not being led into delusion about it.

When I was doing Life Coach training that was one of the most pointed observations made to me, “Are you sure you’re not under some delusion about that”. Whatever it was. It certainly gave me pause to consider the experience more deeply.

Conclusion

The quote by Blaise Pascal has particular relevance to our stories.

“All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

If we can develop the discipline to sit in a quiet room alone, we may come face to face with the stories we’re telling ourselves. Those stories can provide insights. By working with those insights we can build new modes of being and actions that better serve us and the present we are creating.

Blessings

 

know yourself

How to Know Yourself and What are the Benefits.

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How to know yourself and what are the benefits of this awareness? In my current employment, I was told that one staff member, before he left, had referred to me as “Captain Cruise”. This sounded interesting to me. Another person’s perception is just one way you have of how to know yourself.

I didn’t know until after he’d gone that he nicknamed me that. It sounded synonymous with being, “So laid back he’s almost horizontal”. While I don’t know if I’ve ever thought of myself that way I had often heard myself described as such.

Anyway, I decided to call this website – livinghorizontally.com to honour that. living horizontally

What is an affiliate marketer looking for? For me, lying in a hammock watching the sunset – Living horizontally. Or at least, living life on your own terms. Being able to finish the day out with a sense of satisfaction. That cruisy attitude comes from a knowing that we can only give our best – we can only control who we are on the inside – our thoughts and feelings. With such an attitude we’re able to put people at ease. We have no control over what is happening in our external reality. Just how we respond to it. What are you looking for as an affiliate marketer? Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments below.

One of the primary attributes we need to hold as Affiliate Marketers is who we are. When we know who we are, we know what we have to offer. We gear our offers to people just like us. Perhaps our customer avatar is a reflection of who we are? Sure, we may want to believe that everyone out there is a potential customer. But the more we narrow our idea of who our perfect customer is the more likely we are to lasso them from out of the herd.

So how do you know yourself?

How to Know Yourself

One of the more interesting exercises I was introduced to on my personal development journey was while doing a Certificate in Life Coaching. We had to pair up with another participant and for 5 minutes the other would ask the question, “Who are you?”. Each time the question was asked you had to come up with an answer… Male, son, husband, partner, chef, cyclist, father, teacher, boy scout, student, gardener, movie-goer, reader, writer. It is amazing how many ways we can answer the question. And all of those are ways we know ourselves. We internalize our experiences of these roles and become a vehicle for all of these aspects.boy scout - how to know yourself

And what happens if our idea of one of those roles is broken. When I stopped being a boy scout, I still carried the experience of a boy scout. Likewise, when my marriage broke up I wanted to understand more about myself, my part in the failure, even though I would carry onward the notion of marriage.

As I said earlier, one of the ways we can know ourselves is by hearing what others think of us. Often it is those we trust that can feel comfortable enough to speak something like that out loud. And others will talk behind our backs.

Noticing our feelings when we’re communicating or interacting with others can be a great source of self-knowledge. Joe Vitale speaks of this being an instructive opportunity to get in touch with counter-intentions. Intentions that are throwing sticks into the spokes of your wheel, that are keeping you from fully expressing who you want to be.

There are many modalities and aspects of psychology that can give us pointers to what can be preferred ways of being – more ways to know yourself.

What helps when you want to know yourself.

Again we do have preferred ways of being. I was introduced to these personality preferences through astrology and numerology. NO, not the ones you used to find in the newspaper and can now find online. I gleaned these insights from books, finding the ideas that resonated with me and rejecting those that didn’t. Maybe these are just energetic forces acting on us rather than traits that are set in concrete.

When I was first planning this post I imagined going into some detail about different ways we can know ourselves. A lot of personal development programs have come up with some sort of personality typing modality. Even my medical herbalist has a typing framework.

Two that immediately spring to mind are; Myers-Briggs and the Enneagram. The links are to free online questionnaires at LonerWolf that can give you insight into a variety of traits. I’ll reiterate these are just preferences. There is nothing concrete about them. They are fluid. For more comprehensive professional testing go the Myers-Briggs Foundation and for the Enneagram at the Enneagram Institute.

Another that I find myself returning to is the PMAI (the Pearson-Marr Archetypal Index). This links to a free archetypal test that’ll give you a close representation of the actual PMAI which is based on the Hero’s Journey. If you want to dive deeper into this go to StoryWell.

And the VIA Character Strengths survey. And the VIA is a 15-minute free questionnaire that provides you with a small report of 24 different strengths that apply to you.

But perhaps the most defining way to know ourselves comes from the Good Book. “Ye shall know them by their fruits”.

“Ye shall know them by their fruits”

Ye shall know them by their fruits

As an affiliate marketer, what fruit are you producing? Your results will point towards the service you’re providing and how good it is.

The niche you choose will be a great indicator of where you imagine your strengths lie. That niche is a tree that you plant in the internet garden. The content you create becomes the nutrients and water you keep the tree healthy with. The healthier the tree the more fruit it will produce – the better your results will be. It may require pruning to retain the tree’s vitality.

The saying, “Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on earth” is apt here. By looking after your tree (creating good content) you are producing more fruit for your customers. You are being of service to those that have an interest similar to yours.

What happens when you know yourself

Affiliate marketing is a way of turning your obsession into your profession. The more you focus on your niche the more confident you become. Your niche flows from who you are and what you do. And when you express that love in content creation you show the world who you really are.

Your niche is what you are being in the world. I heard this idea listening to Zig Ziglar… “Before we can have we must do and before we can do, we must be”. The Doing and then the Having flow outwards from who we are Being. The act of content creation is an outflow from your being an expert in your niche. Trust the knowledge and wisdom you have gained along the way. The smarts you’ve got from being totally involved in your niche.

Knowledge, wisdom, experience, passion, smarts – these are the fruits we talked about before. Being immersed in your niche is how you’ve been tending your tree, watering and nourishing the ground it has taken root in. This care will be evident in the quality of fruit you produce.

By focusing on our being we create a vibration of trust that draws customers to our offers. They want to know what we know.

Moving forward

And we can’t rest on our laurels. We need to keep moving forward. We need to reach further if we can to maintain the mantle of expertise that our customers rely on. I said earlier that there are a few modalities I return to check my journey. To see if I’ve changed over the course of years. The VIA Character Strengths Survey is of particular interest to me as it reiterates that my prime character strength is a love of learning.

What better way of increasing the experience of learning than to share it with others. Seek to become a better provider and inspiration to your customers by staying at the forefront of your profession or craft. Challenge draws us on to greater expression of who we are.

By adopting some sort of reflective practice we acknowledge that there can be improvements made to how we present to the world. If we think back on our day there may be moments that we might have responded or acted in a way that served us better.

Community

Having a community around us is a great source of inspiration and support for the journey we’re on. Engaging with others, and maintaining the attitude of the observer when we notice triggers, provides us with the nourishment we need for the trail. The triggers may be both positive and negative. Both will be beneficial. Community

The tribes we gather around us when we put ourselves out there online have become interested because they can see the confidence evident in our content. Our self-knowledge has created the trust we need to become a leader for others who are seeking our expertise. This also means we may open ourselves to detractors, those people who seem only to want to pull down what we have spent time doing.

I said earlier that being conscious of how other people may trigger us is a great source of self-knowledge. What we imagine is making us angry when we view the behaviour of others could be a reflection of behaviour we also exhibit though we’re unaware of it. If we can acknowledge those triggers and gain insight into our own conduct it will enable us to continue to grow as marketers and people.

“The unexamined life is not worth living”

Socrates

Blessings