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3 Tips to Get Out of Your Own Way
Self-Sabotage sucks.
Everything about it blows, from how it shows up in your life to the consequences of it.
If you find yourself repeatedly asking questions like,
“Why do I keep doing this?”
“How does this keep happening to me?”
You’re suffering from self-sabotage. You’re getting in your own way.
Fortunately, since you’re the one getting in your own way — you can get out of your own way.
Self-sabotaging behaviors are behaviors that worked for you at one point in your life. But now that you’ve evolved and circumstances have changed, they no longer work.
It’s a pattern -& patterns can be broken.
3 Tips to Break Free of Self-Sabotage:
Identify It: You can’t manage an unknown. You need to identify areas in your life where what you may think is acceptable behavior is actually destroying your efforts. Self-Sabotage manifests in several different ways:
Perfectionism, sharing ideas with people who don’t support you, not going all the way, always blaming others, overplanning, perpetual learning w/o taking action, to name a few.
Google self-sabotaging behaviors for a more comprehensive list. Read through each one, be…