Recently, I wrote about my growing gaggle of ankle-biters.<\/p>\n
Ankle-biters being people who know they can’t rise to your level,\u00a0and so haunt forums, and blogs, and social media wasting their\u00a0lives lobbing cheap shots, personal attacks, and lame attempts to\u00a0try to tear you down to raise themselves up (which never works) —\u00a0because they’re still stuck in mommy’s basement angrily eating\u00a0cheetos and glued to porn all day (literally and\/or\u00a0figuratively)\u00a0instead of doing real work. Since they can’t bite off\u00a0your head (i.e. beat you) they can only nip at your ankles. And,\u00a0like the proverbial angry, ankle-biting dachshund, if they aren’t\u00a0nipping at your ankles, they are probably going to try to hump<\/em> your\u00a0ankle to show their so-called “dominance.” (Figuratively humping\u00a0your ankle, hopefully not literally, but you never know with some\u00a0of these seething goo-roo fanboys heh).<\/p>\n Anyway…<\/p>\n I got several responses to that email.<\/p>\n One of which was from a guy who has been plagued by his own growing\u00a0number of ankle-biters\/humpers.<\/p>\n They’re really affecting him.<\/p>\n He is having trouble ignoring them.<\/p>\n And, has this urge to always respond back to lies, personal\u00a0attacks, etc which just wastes his time, makes him more stressed,\u00a0and further arouses the ankle-humpers attacking him.<\/p>\n He wanted to know what he should do?<\/p>\n My answer:<\/p>\n 1. First, they can make great email fodder.<\/strong><\/p>\n (You owe it to the ankle-humping schlubs to profit from them, they\u00a0are putting in all that work, after all…)<\/p>\n 2. Yes, ankle-biters and humpers are annoying.<\/strong><\/p>\n But, they’re mostly harmless.<\/p>\n (Unless you get a real psycho on your hands.)<\/p>\n And, eventually they get tired.<\/p>\n All that biting and humping takes energy, after all.<\/p>\n And, what sustains them is your one-on-one reaction<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n They want to know they have some significance in the world (because\u00a0they are too afraid to do anything with their own lives and, thus,\u00a0attach themselves to yours, like a parasite). And by you stressing\u00a0out, arguing back, getting into long, pointless debates via email\u00a0with them, etc you simply feed their parasitic need for drama.<\/p>\n And, as long as you feed them, they’ll come back.<\/p>\n So don’t nourish them.<\/p>\n Let them eat on their own emotions, instead<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n And, when they run out of “food”, they’ll have no choice but to\u00a0leave and find a new host to attach to somewhere else.<\/p>\n Hey, do what you want with this info.<\/p>\n But I’ve seen it many times.<\/p>\n In fact, back when I did client work, one of my clients was the\u00a0biggest in the self defense niche for many years before retiring\u00a0from it. And he was constantly being lied about and tarnished in\u00a0the forums, blogs, and social media sites. The bigger his business\u00a0grew, the more aggressive the ankle-biting and ankle-humping\u00a0attempts became.<\/p>\n He said it’s just how the game goes.<\/p>\n It’s like a yard stick for success, in many ways.<\/p>\n If you do anything significant you’re going to get haters.<\/p>\n But, he realized that eventually the squawkers will get bored, or\u00a0uninterested in you, and move on to some other person’s ankle to\u00a0try to hump to get their jollies from.<\/p>\n Anyway, moral of the story?<\/p>\n Ignore them.<\/p>\n This is the same as kicking them off your ankle.<\/p>\n Probably, they will come back.<\/p>\n But, then you just keep kicking them off.<\/p>\n (By ignoring them.)<\/p>\n And then, eventually, they’ll disappear.<\/p>\n ’nuff said.<\/p>\n Now, on to business:<\/p>\n If you ain’t getting attacked by the ankle-biters and humpers\u00a0you’re not trying hard enough.<\/p>\n Enter the “Email Players” newsletter.<\/p>\n Using my system by default will likely get you more haters.<\/p>\n But, also more sales, too.<\/p>\n If you’re worried about some loser living in mommy’s basement\u00a0hating on you don’t subscribe. You will almost certainly attract a\u00a0lot of them.<\/p>\n Instead, keep playing it safe.<\/p>\n Keep being plain vanilla.<\/p>\n And, keep out of the ankle-humpers sights.<\/p>\n Fact is, not everyone has the stomach for this.<\/p>\n (As much as I wish more people did.)<\/p>\n For everyone else?<\/p>\n Subscription info is here:<\/p>\n