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Here's a free excerpt from The Loser Syndrome:  Prevention, Detection, Cure - the self-help, self-motivation, self-self book that you should definitely read!  Enjoy!
 

Chapter 1:
This Is Exciting - Aren’t You Excited?

Greetings! My name is Clifford S. Yurman - you can call me Cliff. I’d ask you what your name is, but I really don’t think I would be able to hear what you’re saying right now - even if you called out your name very loudly.
 
Anyway, I do hope you are doing all right. I want to begin by saying that, well, I have a theory about you...

You see, I believe the fact that you noticed a self-help book like this one - indicates to me something really important about you - that either now or at some time in your past, you have felt just a tiny bit, shall we say, insecure? Well maybe more than just a tiny bit. It is quite possible that, deep in the recesses of your mind, the word - dare I say it - Loser - has resonated with you in some profound way. Am I right? I knew it.

Now, take heart, there’s really no shame in it and I certainly meant no harm by mentioning it. I, myself, have felt exactly as you have - as we all have - at some point in our lives - or if you're like me, all through our lives.

And if this is indeed the case - as I suspect that it is - that you have bandied about the word Loser as a representation of how you feel about yourself - you, my friend, may have a potentially serious problem - for it is a sign that you are particularly susceptible to one of the world’s most self-destructive diseases. No, I’m not talking about the avian flu - I am not talking about some horrible form of cancer or drug-resistant tuberculosis. I am, in fact, speaking of:

The Loser Syndrome

Just what is The Loser Syndrome, why is it so dangerous, and why do I think you might contract it someday - if you haven’t already? Let’s start from the very beginning - your beginning…

You take a nine-month swim, and out you come. Whaaaaa! Aren’t you cute? You grow and mature (at least some of us do) - you experience a lot of stuff along the way, and you also cultivate a bunch of neuroses and insecurities - positive traits, too, mind you - and finally, you become the person that folks now recognize as “you.”

Life goes on, and one day, you happen to notice that a lot of bad things have been happening to you lately - the cat died, your mom got ill, your job got cut, someone you actually cared about broke up with you, your furnace exploded - whatever. Or, you’ve noticed something else - that nothing particularly good has happened to you, well, since you were born!

When things go wrong in our lives, we naturally want to point a finger and pin the blame on someone or something. Typically, we attribute our misfortunes to one or more of what I like to call The Four Scapegoats:

1. Other People
2. Fate, Bad Luck, etc.
3. Unfavorable Conditions, (both real and imagined)
4. Your Own Incompetence

It doesn’t really matter which scapegoat you point a finger at - nine chances out of ten, you are going to blame the wrong one. But one thing is certain - when Count Misfortune drops in through your bedroom window enough times, you begin to get superstitious - you perceive “trends” where none exist - you start believing that you are incapable of ever succeeding at anything. “They,” or “it,” are out to get you - you couldn’t win even if you tried!

But wait - there’s more! You see, this belief that you have - this “I am incapable of winning” thing - not only becomes an intrinsic part of you, it also starts controlling the way you utilize your time, the way you plan your life, the way you spend your money, and most importantly, the way you deal with other people.

And the way you deal with other people is of particular concern to me. You see, it is one thing to keep all that self-doubt and suffering locked up on the inside - that’s certainly bad, but it’s not the worst part. The worst part is when all that poison begins to leak out of you - in the form of self-deprecating remarks, cynical comments, paranoid finger-pointing, outlandish complaints, general yelling, screaming and abuse, and all the rest. The result is, you start to turn other people off in a big way. And when other people turn off to you, countless opportunities to improve your situation never get offered up to you - like they would have if you had learned keep your big mouth shut!

In effect, the initial seeds of self-doubt begin to sprout and very gradually, you turn into a walking, talking self-fulfilling prophesy of gloom and doom, and either consciously or subconsciously, you concoct strategies and habits that help perpetuate your downward spiral. You, sir or madam, have contracted a bad case of The Loser Syndrome!

Tragically for so many victims inflicted with this condition, it’s a very hard thing to beat once you have it. But let’s not pull that lethal injection kit out of your night table drawer just yet. Because effective prevention is right on your computer screen! With this eBook, you and I are going to work on analyzing just what it is that’s going wrong. We‘ll give you some common sense models, strategies and tactics for improving your outlook, for building your confidence and for making you feel just the opposite - like a Normal person!

Wait a minute! Why did I say “Normal” instead of “Winner,” like most other self-help books do? Take a look at this chart.

The TLS scale (shown above) is a widely accepted indicator used by professionals like myself to diagnose The Loser Syndrome. OK, I have confession - I am the only professional using this particular indicator - but no matter, keep reading.

Anyway, were you to go in for a Neuro/Psychological Scaled Evaluation or NPSEn (not generally available), and were you to score less than Zero on such a test, as I suspect you would, you will have tested positive for The Loser Syndrome. Or to use even more technical language, you are in the Tangential Loser Metric. However, were you to score above a Zero on the test, scientists would diagnose you as being in the Tangential Winner Metric.

Most self-help books will have you believe that when you complete their regimen, you might actually score a Ten on the NPSEn - again, that would put you in the Tangential Winner Metric. Now I understand you are probably not a scientist, but I ask you - to suddenly move a full 20 points up the scale after reading a few hundred pages of a self-help book - how realistic is that?

You see, with our program, we predict that you can go from a score of Negative Ten to a Zero in just a few weeks. And let’s face it - for you, that is a major improvement!

Anyway, in our model of the world, Normal is actually a very good thing to be, as you’ll see in a few chapters. Winners are usually egomaniacal blowhards that everybody is jealous of and nobody can stand to be around - and you certainly don’t want to be one of those. But I can guarantee, with our program, you will definitely get to a Zero, no problema.

In conclusion, I urge you to read this book - both for the good that it will do you - and the laughs it will no doubt bring you. Now how’s that for an introduction?  What do you say we get to work…read more excerpts!

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