Careful! Your intruder is watching you. That’s right, he is getting ready to jump, just like the shark you see in the photo. “What is this all about?” you ask. I’ll tell you.

You know your intruder by the many disguises he maintains. Here are some of them-(Your inner voice, your comfort zone, your subconscious, and don’t forget… your internal dialogue!) What is the long and short of this story? Here it is, and straight to the point-

The Intruder will arrive without warning and usually when you least expect it. What can he do? He can make your life miserable and really mess you up!

Like what? Simple. The intruder represents your “old you”. Not the new, represent your greatness, shooting a home run, you. By “old me”, I mean the times gone by when you embraced fear and were limited in thought and actions by your allegiance to your all-encompassing Comfort Zone. Wow! That was a bite.

So what do you do about it? I suggest you do the same as most people do. Stay on top of your potential problem. Don’t give in to their alarmism. Stay focused and strong.

The Intruder hit me yesterday. As usual, he usually attacks his victims when they are tired and frustrated. Sounds familiar? She was helping a friend set up a schedule for her to see some health care providers. This friend has several medical problems that need attention.

Coming to the point here, my friend and I ended up arguing over some programming issues. And since I hate myself for this, I ended up yelling at him. Shortly after, I apologized to my friend. She understood me and forged me.

The truth of the situation was quite simple. I was reacting very negatively to the frustration I ran into when I was trying to help my friend. But, that was not the real problem. The real problem was that I was pissed off because another problem I was working on, totally unrelated to my friend, was driving me crazy. I was subsequently snapped out of my frustrations with my friend.

Fortunately, it didn’t take me long to realize the errors of my ways, and I immediately changed course. The Intruder immediately recognized my vulnerability and frustration and pounced on me, making a complete jerk out of me. The good news is that as soon as I realized what was happening, I banished the Intruder from my existence and replaced it with wisdom and common sense. Oh, not to forget, the valuable ingredient called patience and serenity.

So, everything is fine now with me and my friend. But, I have no doubt, the Intruder will return! The important thing is to recognize him when he attacks and handle the situation quickly and wisely. If you don’t, you can ruin yourself a lot and also hurt a lot of people.

I think this Intruder is a great threat to everyone. But, I’ll tell you a little secret. The intruder does not work alone. He has many little helpers. He loves to kick ass and get up to a lot of mischief.

Look at it this way, the Intruder travels in a Pack. A pack of mischievous ones who love to create mayhem and destruction for whoever they target. Maybe this analogy will help you. The Intruder and his friends – fear, doubt, excessive inhibition, anxiety, mistrust and jealousy among many others – travel in a pack of wolves like the German submarines of World War II. Fame. Remember the wolf pack from German submarine warfare? They were noticeable!

His strategy, very successful at that, was to travel with a pack of submarines, searching for a convoy of unprotected Allied merchant ships carrying supplies to the Allies. When the wolf pack encountered a vulnerable merchant convoy, they would torpedo the ships and sink them.

This is how the Intruder and his friends work. Rather than a convoy of ships, the Intruder looks for strong, successful people. If you have it. He likes strong and mature people. You guessed it. People who “fixed” it. believe it. Why does the Intruder prefer strong people?

Simple. He knows that he can do the most damage to those successful guys. It makes sense doesn’t it? Usually his best strategy is to catch them “off guard”. By the time these strong, self-assured guys realize they’re in serious trouble, the Intruder is packing his bags and preparing for “easy wins” elsewhere.

So you see, the Intruder, give the devil his due, he’s a “smooth operator”. Why do you like people who “got it all”? Because of the way human nature operates. We all have a past and a lot of junk buried in our subconscious. And, it just takes the right “trigger” to unleash that “old problem” upon us, that the Intruder kicks our butts senseless.

This is what it said: “By whom the gods destroy, they first take pride.” In other words, from the Intruder’s point of view, if you can catch a ‘tough, confident guy’ off guard, you had a *&%$@ good time!

My best advice is to stay calm, relaxed and focused. The Intruder loves situations where people are anxious, frustrated, and tense. I guarantee that if you find yourself feeling any of these negative emotions, change the threatening situation immediately. If you look into the murky waters of frustration, you’ll see signs of the Intruder and his herd trolling him. Be careful.

I can’t end this without telling you about the Intruders’ biggest fun or mischief, depending on your perspective. You love having a ‘target’ wreak havoc on your friends and relationships.

But most importantly, the Intruder loves to wreak havoc on the Target itself. He loves it when his friends, self-talk, anxiety and frustration, fear and restrictive comfort zones wreak absolute havoc.

The Intruder’s goal is to bring our “strong, confident people” to the level of self-doubting “little me.”

So my friends, it’s time to end this. Stay relaxed and focused. Don’t let life trap you. I guarantee that most things in life are not as important as they seem. Just as nothing is really as it ‘seems’. Health.