Yes, you CAN demotivate yourself! There's no longer any need to suffer from massive motivation or high achievement.

Anytime you feel an attack of ambition, energy or enthusiasm coming on, just use one of the following techniques. You'll soon be safely back in front of your television watching reruns or down the pub nursing a pint with all your unambitious acquaintances.

WAY NUMBER 5: Spend Time with Low Achievers

We absorb the mindset and attitudes of the people we associate with, so it's important to stay away from the high-fliers, the fast starters and the achievers.

Be very careful to choose friends who are going nowhere and, if possible, who are openly hostile to the entire idea of achievement and success. Face it - there will be times you'll need their support in keeping your dreams dead. So always cultivate friends and associates who are on the same track you are.

The best way to identify low achievers is to listen for phrases like:

• You'd have to be ruthless to succeed like that
• He's rich, so he MUST be crooked as a corkscrew
• We just weren't born to be rich or successful
• I don't try to be somebody I'm not
• We may be poor, but at least we're happy

Be sure to spend all your available time with people who think like this, and you'll keep yourself safely among the non-achievers you know and feel comfortable with. Staying with the rest of the herd is the first rule of survival as a nobody.

WAY NUMBER 4: Openly Criticize High Achievers

Closely related to number 5 is this next method of demotivating yourself.

Always look for ways to undercut the special achievements of others. If an acquaintance does something noteworthy, find a way to take a sly dig. Typical examples include:

• I guess that's good... but her poor husband and kids
• Pretty unbelievable. Wonder what he's on?
• Of course, she never sees her old friends any more
• The way he smiles you'd think he's sincere
• Some people just don't know how much is enough

By suggesting a possible negative side of another's achievements, you can make those negatives seem true, even though they're not. We're not concerned about truth here, only about squelching dreams and ambition.

Please note that this method will work even if you don't make your remarks aloud. Planting them in your own mind can squeeze out any urges to better yourself. This is what you're really after anyway, so it's a sure-fire way to keep yourself caged securely within your walls of limitations. Any spillover into other people's lives and failures can be considered a bonus.

WAY NUMBER 3: Avoid Goal Oriented Activities

Never set a goal. Never work toward anything. If someone offers you a step up, such as a promotion, you should firmly refuse. You may accept raises, but avoid giving any value in return.

Stay away from any activities that might enlarge your concept of what's possible. Ideally, you should be working to shrink your world rather than expanding it. But of course, even that could be mistaken for a goal of sorts. So it's safest to preserve, at all costs, your status quo exactly as it currently exists. Your watchword should always be "Try nothing, change nothing, be nothing."

Straying from this principle could open the door to excitement, hope, enthusiasm and other dangerous emotions, which are not for the likes of you.

WAY NUMBER 2: Always Seek Logical-Sounding Reasons Why Not

On the off chance that an exciting idea wanders into your mind, you need a ready repertoire of excuses so you don't unthinkingly jump up to put the plan into action.

Keep yourself primed with thoughts like:

• I would never know how to do that
• That would take too much time (energy, brains, etc.)
• They'd all laugh at me
• Who am I to try something like that?
• I'm not really all that interested in...

In fact, any kind of "I'm not, I can't, I wouldn't" thought will serve the purpose. They don't need to be especially true - their only real purpose is to keep you from ever starting. Remember, discouragement is a virtue, and you must always nurture it in your mind and in the minds of others.

There are, however, a couple of important exceptions to this matter of never starting anything. It's always useful to start arguments, rumors or gossip.

WAY NUMBER 1: Wallow in Self Pity

And the number one best way to smother any feelings of motivation is to spend a lot of time feeling sorry for yourself. It's a big no-no to feel hope or ambition or self-worth, so be on constant alert.

If such feelings appear, you must instantly remind yourself of all the reasons you're not good enough, you're not smart enough, you're not worthy, and besides nobody likes you anyway.

Filling your mind with these negative thoughts will give hope and motivation no place to grow.

An especially effective way to keep self pity alive is to begin identifying yourself as a victim. Think of all the people who have wronged you (or your population demographic) over the years. Nursing steady feelings of anger, resentment, unfairness and even rage is one of the best possible ways to keep yourself feeling helpless and pitiful.

And anytime you get the chance to share such thoughts with others, you should jump on it. This helpps spread the mood of helplessness. It is especially important to plant these thoughts into the minds of young children. Train them early and they'll never have a chance to dream of freedom or achievement.

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SO THERE YOU HAVE THEM, the top five ways to keep yourself down in the dumps, down where you can devote all your energies to despair and hopelessness.

And remember, if any of your friends should break out of the crowd and start overachieving, you owe it to them to step in and use one or more of these techniques on their behalf.

After all, if you don't help them lose hope, they may eventually escape to a life of fulfilled dreams, satisfaction and happiness. And then where would you be?

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