Victimology: Using a real or perceived injustice as the basis for excusing attitudes, opinions and beliefs which reaffirm and perpetuate personally destructive behavior.

Everyone of us has at one time or another been a victim. We’ve been on the receiving end and had to suffer because of it. Many times when we were least able to defend ourselves, our victimization created subsequent behavior that perpetuated that victimization.

Although we may not have been responsible initially for what happened to us or how we reacted, we must have the courage to intercede on the part of our best interest.

Victimology keeps us the prisoner of an experience by rationalizing our subsequent behavior.

Experiences which cause us to form habits that are self defeating, need to be illuminated and resolved. Not used as an excuse to perpetuate the attitudes, opinions and beliefs which foster the self defeating habits. Understanding the source of our actions is imperative. Using the source as an excuse to avoid taking responsibility, after the fact, for enabling the continuation of the flawed attitudes, opinions and beliefs is a de facto acceptance of fatalism.

Fatalism assumes you are powerless to change the trajectory of your life. Fatalism is a form of self imposed slavery.

Fatalism is antithetical to The Intentional Prosperity™ philosophy. It’s a way living that excuses your self defeating behavior and absolves you from the responsibility to take back personal control over those aspects of your attitudes, opinions and beliefs that support and rationalize it. Fatalism condemns you to repeat the original mistake and react to its consequences…again and again.

Becoming aware of the source of your self defeating behavior and accepting responsibility for altering that behavior is an act of personal emancipation.

It is a self-affirming act that breaks the chain keeping us the slave to some point in time, when we didn’t have the enlightenment or personal power necessary to avoid the negative influence of a relationship, thing or experience.

To become aware of the cause of your self defeating behavior and then deny the responsibility for taking action to alter the behavior, is the greatest form of self betrayal.

You have betrayed the primary truth of your life experience:

What you are is built upon the steps of what you’ve been, as you climb the stairway of what you can be.

-Bob Baran