EDITOR’S NOTE:  AT THE TIME I WROTE THIS ARTICLE, IT WAS TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE.  I NOW RESCIND THESE WORDS AND WITHDRAW ANY SUPPORT FOR THE TLI BANNER.  APPARENTLY, THERE WAS A REASON TO BE “HATING” AFTER ALL. 

Are you feeding your haters their hater fuel?

I wasn’t planning to make an update today.  But, I was forced to.  I was inspired by success.  While prepping for some personal training today, I saw Master Lloyd Irvin put up a hater fuel status update that brought a smile to my face:

“Team Lloyd Irvin Operation Invade Atlanta Is Now Complete! We Dropped The Medal Chaser Team In At 22:00 Hours And Just Got Our Last Target! The Mission Was To Bring Back Gold Medals In Every Absolute Division And The Mission Is a Complete! We Won The Blue, Purple, Brown And Absolute Black Divisions! Aaaaaayyyyy”

For some reason unbeknownst to me, the TLI squad receives a lot of hate and while also a huge lack of mainstream bjj media coverage.  Luckily for them, Lloyd is a brilliant marketer.  He does a great job of letting everyone know about their success.  Every time they succeed it fuels the haters.

For the life of me, I don’t understand the hater mentality.  They are everywhere in life.  In my own personal life I have encountered haters in every facet of life.  I have encountered them in school, sports, and work.  Unfortunately, I have also encountered them within social circles and family.  You see, I consider the hater mentality or haterism a psychological disorder.  They are infected with misosis (miso = hate & sis = constant state).  I think I’ll refer to it as hatosis.  Their weakness doesn’t stop there.  It appears they also have a fear of victory.  They have victphobia.  Instead of being inspired by others’ success, it becomes their hater fuel and they drive themselves deeper and deeper into hatosis and victphobia.  It’s a vicious cycle; I pity these people.

But, let me make this perfectly clear, If they do not make the choice to take control of their life and improve it, I will have no qualm allowing my success to be their hater fuel.  😉 You can bet your @$$ buddy!  At the end of the day, I rather live in my positive fantasy world than in YOUR negative world in denial city on bitter street.

TLI 3rd Place 2012 Atlanta Open

 I have become a huge fan of TLI and what they do.  They preach no excuses.  They condemn weak mentality.  In fact, if you haven’t seen Lloyd’s video on weak mentality dubbed “bjj bitchassness” I certainly recommend you do so now!

 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GuQbYHVBRI]

Keep doing your thing TLI.  Keep producing that hater fuel.

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