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I may not have the formula for success but I will be guaranteed to fail if I get close to an ESV.

I believe that we all want prosperity and success in our lives, and that we are forever chasing our dreams and if we work hard we will be able to reap rewards from our hard work. Be aware of Emotion Sucking Vampires (ESV) as they do exist and they live among us sucking on our energy and resources.

Here are a few easy ways to identify an ESV

1. They always ask for help. Consistently they ask for your time and energy to fix their problems. Regardless of the size of their problem, they never want to lift their finger and do something themselves or use their brain to think about resolving their problem. All they want is for you to give up your time helping them as they believe that this is your responsibility.
2. Complain about everything. ESV is never happy with their life or anything in their life. Regardless of how wonderful their life is, they keep thinking that it is not. They constantly enjoy talking about how bad things are in their life or other people’s lives are. Usually their view is pointless and not worth taking into consideration, and you find that they make things up for the sake of making conversations.
3. Victimized and full of self pity. This sounds crazy, but they do this often. They talk like they are the victim of the economy, the society, their friends, and even the weather. They always feel less advantaged than others and that everyone is out to get them. They feel nothing can be done to help them and that the world owes them everything. What’s worse is they feel that they are not responsible for any of their problems.
4. Ungrateful and unthankful. They never have anything nice to say about anything and will never thank you for anything that you do to help them out.
5. Dream killer. This is the natural nature of their thinking pattern, as they like to kill any dreams that you may have. So if you want to make a breakthrough in your life and share the vision you have, please don’t share with an ESV, as all they do is try to suck all your positive energy, pouring cold water into your dream. They try to convince you that you do not deserve to have great things; you can just fit in the mediocrity.

If you meet an ESV, the best advice I can give you is to – Run! Run away from them, you do not need them in your life. If you are not cautious and you start up a conversation with them, you’ll end up consoling them. Although you try to convince them the reality is not that bad and try to cheer them up, they will not listen. All they do is consume your energy and time on something that can’t be fixed. You are better off focusing you’re on your dream. Another thing to watch out for is, ESV is like a contagious infection, the more you hang around with them the more you’ll eventually become one too. Once you become an ESV, I can guarantee you will fail in everything you do.

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