‘Want to know exactly how to go about beating bullies at their own game? Here are 9 proven and effective tactics every bullied victim must know.
When bullies target you, it can leave you overwhelmed, confused, and depressed. Why? Because it seems that they knock you down at every turn, then keep you down. However, there are easy ways of beating bullies at their own game. You just need to know how to do it and do it successfully.
As someone who’s experienced it and learned the art of beating bullies at their own game, I’m giving you the nine easy but effective ways to outfox and outmaneuver your bullies.
In this post, you will learn the nine most effective ways to win against your bullies and become virtually invincible to bullies.
Once you learn these so-easy-it-shouldn’t-work strategies, you will rise above your bullies and become your own hero.
This post is all about beating bullies at their own game and the techniques you should use to do it successfully.
Beating bullies at their own game
Let’s get right into it! Here are the nine easy strategies you can use to turn the tables on your bullies.
1. See your bullies’ behavior for what it is, know where it comes from and realize the intentions behind it.
When you really stop and think about it, bullies can crack you up sometimes, can’t they? Or at least they should.
Bullies try to get your attention by making a smart-alicky comment here, a backhanded compliment there. This is a weakness and you can use it as such if you know how.
Many bullies will deliberately stand behind you in the checkout at the supermarket and sometimes a little too close. These are all attention-getting behaviors and if you’re a target of bullying, you’ve probably had people do the same to you on more than one occasion.
However, the funny thing is that when you see the behavior for what it is, where it comes from, and what’s it’s designed to do, you no longer care. And when you no longer care, the behavior ceases to be hurtful nor threatening.
Instead, it becomes boring, then hilarious or it only makes you pity the poor things.
Beating bullies at their own game means realizing that your bullies are miserable and pitiful souls.
Moreover, it must really suck to be a bully. All that expended effort to put on airs and all that hatred and vitriol! Bullies must carry around all that baggage and it only makes them look like the miserable pieces of garbage and not you.
All that negative energy that usually only ends up coming back to bite them later! All that effort to bring you down! And for what?
Attention? Is the meanness designed to intimidate those they find threatening? Maybe the bullies want to be feared, admired, or adored by everyone. Or, they may think it makes them look big and tough. They may think their behavior looks cute.
Nevertheless, the end goal is to feel better about themselves and more superior.
Sure. The mean and hateful behaviors of bullies can hurt, no argument there. However, after so long, there comes a point when you no longer give a crap.
Moreover, there comes a time when their behavior loses its potency and no longer has the intended effect it once did.
As a result, the people who bully you only become less menacing, less threatening, and less of an issue until they become downright boring. Then, finally, they become irrelevant.
Any behavior repeated over and over again gets so worn out and overdone until it becomes as stale as a three-day-old pile of shit that has lost its stink.
2. Beating bullies at their own game: Ignore and mock their insults, taunts, and worthless prattle.
Watch the bullies continue the same worn-out behaviors, making arses of themselves. They push a little harder and a little harder to get your attention. They may even use gaslighting to prompt you to get defensive.
Maybe they strategize and change tactics because what they’ve been doing just isn’t working anymore. However, it store bores you to death because, again, you just don’t care.
Therefore, you no longer react to it. You only walk away chuckling and leave the bullies standing there with their mouths hung open.
Again, bullies don’t realize that, after so long doing the same old shenanigans, they eventually reduce their effectiveness and become a real yawn. Moreover, your bullies become so pathetic in your eyes that you can’t help but to shake your head in pity.
So, understand that here are two things bullies hate- being mocked and your refusal to submit or react to their childish taunts and threats.
3. Keep being yourself.
In other words, don’t let their childish behavior change you. Again, this takes re-framing your mindset to see their behavior as an indicator that there is something wrong with them and not you.
Therefore, relax, be yourself, and let the haters hate.
4. Beating bullies at their own game: Keep taking care of yourself.
Put simpler, keep doing the things fulfill you and creating the life you desire. Practicing self-care is of the most importance when people bully you.
Eat right, exercise, take care of your physical and mental health.
The key here is to create your own happiness and well-being.
5. Focus on and take care of the people you love and who love you.
Instead of focusing on the people who could care less about you and want to see you suffer, focus on the people who love you and who lift you up. Usually, these people are your closest family members and friends.
Moreover, realize that those who don’t see your worth shouldn’t live in your head rent free. So, promptly evict them because they aren’t worthy of one ounce of your energy.
Also, work to create happy moments with these people because they love you and want nothing but the very best for you. Attend family gatherings or host them. Take trips with these wonderful souls. Stay connected with your people.
6. Beating bullies at their own game: Pursue your dreams and aspirations.
Work on your goals and focus on the things you wish to accomplish. This is, by far, the best way to handle bullies. Why? Because when you keep your mind on your goals and dreams, you’ll have no time to think about your bullies.
And, if you don’t think about them, they can’t control you. Heck, they can’t even phase you. And that’s a win for you and a loss for them. Remember that bullies try to get your attention. This is the best way to avoid giving it to them.
7. Get out and enjoy nature.
In other words, go for a walk in the woods. Or, you can go to the park and read a good book on a beautiful fall day. Whatever you love to do outdoors, whether it’s lying on the beach or walking your dog on a walking trail, get outside and enjoy nature.
It’s the best way to recharge, relax, and unwind. Also, it drives away depression because it releases endorphins. Moreover, it gives you lots of vitamin D3 from the sun!
8. Learn new things.
In other words, read, write, and look for lessons life can teach you. The point is not to let yourself stagnate. If you’re not learning new things, you stagnate very easily and that only brings depression.
Therefore, always take the opportunity to learn new things. For example, you could take a course or go to the library and check out a good self-help book to read. Whatever way you choose to learn, always strive to acquire new knowledge.
Your mental health will thank you! I guarantee it!
9. Pay them no mind and keep doing you.
When you focus on and do you, it frustrates and annoys bullies because you’re focusing on yourself and your goals and not them. Also, you are no longer being subjugated by your bullies, and that really tears them up inside.
Moreover, once things reach this point, they usually give up and go find another target because if something is no longer working, you change tactics. And if nothing seems to work, you run out of fortitude and give up.
Therefore, realize that it’s about self. The key is to stop focusing outward and start focusing inward. In other words, work on yourself. Why? Because, as stated earlier, when you’re too busy working on yourself, your bullies become irrelevant very quickly. As they should.
Realize that the reason bullies act the way that they do is because they have no lives. Moreover, they have no control over their own lives. Therefore, they try to take control over yours. Bullies truly are the most miserable of humans on earth. And once you realize this proven fact, they will no longer be an issue.
This is how you beat bullies at their own game!
This post was all about beating bullies at their own game so that you can finally take back your peace and therefore, control over your life.
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