Awareness is really everything. It can be a matter of life and death. It is the difference between existing and living rich or living a life full of life and not a life full of boring-ness. What makes me say this?

Well for starters, I was not born aware but I have become aware. I guess at this point I should define aware and unaware so I don’t lose anyone.

I see people living a life of awareness or being totally unaware. For me it is two different types of life. Awareness is living your life and recognizing how your internal thoughts, feelings, and attitudes affect your external world… even shaping the situations and circumstances you find yourself in and facing… and how this relates directly with what is inside your mind.

Awareness is also recognizing how what you do affects other people. Lack of awareness is a lack of consideration for others.

Take the cold businessman for example who is unaware:

He makes it a lifestyle to always take from people. He is a predator. He is a hunter. He will use you, your money and your network to score a deal. He will over step his boundaries when it comes to using you, your money and your network and will have no problem abusing you so long as he can score a deal or close business.

He will have no regard for you or your money or your network and the impact his abusive actions have on all of this including himself.

When he oversteps his boundaries and you scold him for his improper and dangerous actions, he stands there with a blank look on his face. He stands there looking at you funny thinking you are talking crazy or simply doesn’t understand what he has done.

He doesn’t understand that his actions could have ruined the entire operation for everyone including other businesspeople and companies who are partnered with the operation.

Then he has the nerve to ask for an advance on commissions or to take a bigger stake in the next deal. Meanwhile he just got caught doing a side deal with a fierce competitor and this side deal has angered all partners globally because the side deal he did crashed the profit margin for all partners.

He basically screwed everybody – all the other “team members” or partners – for his own personal gain and doesn’t understand or see why he is being denied the advance in commissions nor does he realize how close he came to losing his job and being homeless.

This is what I call an unaware person. He doesn’t see how his actions affect everything around him. He has zero clue about how playing on a team means cooperation with others is essential for victory.

An unaware person is usually a self-ish person. They do not realize that by working with the hopes and needs and wants and feelings of others they may score the biggest deals of all time.

An unaware person is a taker. They are an energetic vampire and usually are cheap in every aspect of their lives. They love getting a deal, which means they love screwing another out of their livelihood and ability to feed their families and provide for them a decent quality of life.

This makes the unaware person dangerous to all of society.

So my question is… are there any energetic vampires in your life? Know of any? How about you? Are you a taker and don’t even know it?