The Roles People Play

Icon: The Love Roles People Play

Often, love slips into our life and plays a role to help us evolve.

People in our lives ... affect what we do and how we play the game o flight.

If you are having problems with someone, do you know what role they are playing ... and does that challenge how you are living your life?

	Observers These are people who are in a position to see what we do. They can seem like they stand on the sidelines, but the act of observing does impact what we do. Just think about how we change our behavior -- even if only by becoming self conscious -- when we are taking a test, pass a police car as we are driving, or see a surveillance camera on us.
	Participants Participants are part of the game and are playing, but they seem to have no direct relationship to us. They can take on a more significant role if our interests converge or work at cross purposes.
	Detractors When a person or organization is working against our best interests and limiting our ability to play -- they become detractors. Gossips, malcontents, and others who lower the level of play are all detractors who attempt to shift our energy and focus away from our goals to deal with them and the negative impact of their actions.
	Adversaries An adversary is a person or organization who is working at cross purposes to us and impacting our ability to achieve our goals. Adversaries typically raise the level of play, and help us hone our skills and strategies by their opposition. The value of achieving our goals and the investment of resources can often be tested by an adversary.
	Friends People who love us and act in our best interests are our friends. Whether they accept us just as we are or challenge us to grow and become the stuff of our dreams . . . they act in the moment at whatever level we need. And as our needs change, our friends adjust. Those that don't often slip back into being acquaintances.
	Competitors If we are in competition with a participant, they become our competitors. Competitors can all be working to win by claiming the lion's share of a pool of rewards. However, win-lose competitors focus on achieving a goal that eliminates our ability to win as well.
	Rivals Rivals are competitors who compete for the same prize, reward or honor. That could be the hand of the person we want to marry, the top ranking, or the acceptance of the public. But whatever it is, there is only one and it can not be shared.
	Enemies Enemies are people who seek to destroy us and end our ability to play. Not simply focused on winning, they want us gone from their world or reality -- permanently.
	Cooperatives Cooperatives work in mutual cooperation to achieve a larger common goal that everyone can share and enjoy. From making the world a better place to live in, to ensuring an industry or species survives ... cooperatives find a way to work in harmony for a greater purpose.
	Allies Allies are people or organizations that actively cooperate with us by acting or refraining from acting in ways that help us reach our goals in the ways we wish. Allies can act as strong, moderate or weak forces to determine the outcome of events in our favor.
	Partners Partners work together to achieve a common goal that both parties can share. They share or pool resources .., in the form of information, money, time, labor, clients ... in order to more effectively and efficiently win at the game they are playing.
	Champions Champions wholeheartedly support a person, organization or cause, taking bold action to help it achieve its goals and become better at what it does. Champions act in positive, courageous and profound ways to support you or an idea.
	Evangelists These people get the message out by communicating and persuading others to join the person, organization or cause to achieve a very worthwhile goal. As a public spokesman or internal voice of inspiration -- evangelists raise spirits, spark ideas and rally the troops to extraordinary efforts by bring ideas, energy, resources, people and inspiration together to focus on a goal.