Who would have ever thought that none existent entities could hold house in your head, rile you up emotionally and make you want to run away from the very things you want to do. They are those conniving little boogers, whose devious whispers can trigger major emotional upheavals within you; upheavals so strong that you will volunteer to take the destructive detour and make a right turn onto the road of gossip and slander, a sure shortcut to the community of those of like-mind who will assist in feeding 'those little monsters'.

There are a good number of them, but there are five that definitely will sabotage your relationship as an Attraction Network Marketer. You need to know about them and be vigilant of their visit, because, once they enter your head, you may have a terrible time evicting them.

Let’s take a closer look into Monster Ville and meet The Five Little Monsters:

Monsterette number one is Envy.

This little guy shows up when someone gets ahead of you in your network. Her success exceeds yours, and to make things worse, she came into the business after you! You signed her up, for crying out loud!

Or, it could be a person who has qualities that others admire; qualities that you could only hope you had. Envy has a good time with that as well.

Envy triggers resentment: you’ll feel unhappy just by hearing that person’s name. How dare he get ahead of you! Who-the-hell does he think he is; he’s just started in this business a few years ago, now he’s gonna teach me???

Envy may suggest sabotaging the one who got ahead of you, and will even provide precise passive-aggressive “how-to” instructions.

Envy gets so busy and your emotions feed it so well, he decides to invite his cousin, Jealousy.

Closely related, Jealousy comes in and JV’s with Envy. But Jealousy has other plans. Jealousy skews your perspective a tiny bit more, then shifts and turns and you suddenly get the notion that, because your friend has more than you, you must be having less. And, since that makes perfect sense to you, you go along with the ride as you jealously protect what you have acquired and stop sharing any information with your friend.

He in turn senses your behavioral changes and keeps a safe distance from your jealous butt. Jealousy assures you, nevertheless, that your friend is on his ‘high horse’ and that, if you need some help, he will personally awaken his dormant companions, Disgust, Sadness and Anger. You keep that in mind, remain guarded and start building a mental list of doubtful thoughts about your friend and other people like him.

Following we have Monster #3, Skepticism.

Skepticism is a strange and quiet little fella: he seems like he’s always been there with you and it is usually hard to figure out when he actually entered and became a permanent resident. And, I’ll be darned if he doesn’t come out anytime someone wants to share their MLM or other networking business with you.

Skepticism likes to parade and so he always shows up with one or more red flags. Actually, he picked up the red flags as reminders of hurts and pains he experienced in the past, but he’s long forgotten that and so has not a clue when to raise a flag and when not to. His motto: ‘when in doubt, raise a flag.’

Unfortunately, but due to his past, Skepticism dislikes new things and hates change, so whenever his host is introduced to something different or something new, he will quickly red flag it and call upon his private counselor, Distrust.

Distrust is Monster number 4.

Born of gossip, slander, the media, conspiracy theories, fear, hatred, religion, superstition, Distrust can be the most illogical of the whole gang. Distrust will cause his host to write off the most trustworthy person on this planet. If God would come to visit, Distrust would say: “I don’t know about this guy. He may have created the universe and all, but, I don’t know; he must be up to something.”

Distrust causes his host to avoid new challenges, and prevents her from building intimate relationships. Distrust always shows up uninvited and wields his determined sword to sever the ties between friends, couples, business partners and, oddly, you, the host: Distrust’s ultimate price is when he can turn his host against himself. The afflicted host will then freely house the other four monstrosities.

The fifth monster is definitely a free-loader. Anger hitches rides with any monster, big or small, existent or nonexistent. Anger does not care at all. This little snot is the most devious of all monsters and will partner up, JV, co-op, team up, with anyone who’s willing to play its game. Anger is the fiercest imposter and the most dangerous advisor.

Anger is the greatest networker and has the ability to call any monster to action at any given time. Its most favorite pastime is social networking, where he will always find prospects to recruit. If given the chance, Anger will possess you for a long time, for Anger has the endurance of a wild horse.

Anger is a shape shifter who not only can appear in the disguise of all other negative emotions, but can craftily move from one to another as well, triggering each one into activity with a single touch. Anger will ally with the passion of its host to destroy and kill and has no regard to the age, gender, race, creed, or religion of its victims.

This monster is responsible for all human destruction in this world.

So there you have them: the five little monsters that can come between you and your fellow networkers, between you and your prospects and between you and your success.

They are little mental politicians and will tell you anything to justify their actions and it is all too easy to fall for their little lies. They will hinder the communications between you and your fellow networkers, distort the spoken word, and prevent you from discerning truth from fiction. Your view of any situation becomes painfully exaggerated once they make your head their home.

The more attention you give them, the bigger they get. Interestingly, when you fight them, they get even BIGGER!! What do you expect: they stem from the same mind that invented fighting and so they know every trick in the Book of War and Games. You don’t stand a chance. They will get bigger the more you oppose them. Guaranteed! And as you probably know by now, they can get extremely large.

Your best defense against them is no defense at all. Since they thrive on your attention, your negative emotions and your opposition to them, your ultimate weapon against them is to ignore them. Not to DENY them, but to ignore them. Ignoring them makes them dissolve [after they pull their final manipulation trick, of course].

Acknowledge their presence for what it is: realize that they are nothing but thought forms. The truth about thought forms is that they are meaningless and powerless until they are taken on as an identity.

When you identify with thought forms, you take them on as if you are them and then you will temporarily act as if you have become them, i.e., you become envious, you become jealous, you become skeptic, you become distrustful, you become angry.

So, the next time you feel someone ‘gets you upset’, it will be in your best interest to mentally step aside, observe and acknowledge the emotion and focus on acceptance of the situation at hand as it is. AVOID THE MIND CHATTER; AVOID EMBELLISHING. AVOID FEEDING THE FIVE LITTLE MONSTERS.

As a leader you are expected to be understanding of others. As a leader, you need to understand these emotions and take responsibility for them. They’re yours: deal with them. Set them straight before they take you over.

Be accepting of your own humanness and the humanness of others. Find the goodness in others and focus on that instead. Understand that they, too, have a head motel full of little monsters, only, they may not be aware of their own power to ignore them and involuntarily [unconsciously], become them.

Although your leadership doesn’t make you a better human being than others, it does put you in an exceptional position to pose as an example to others and demonstrate to them those possibilities that they have not yet found within themselves.

This is the greatest gift you can offer yourself and others.

And I congratulate you for that.