What Happens When You Get in Your Own Way

What happens when you get in your own way?

When you continually thwart your best efforts?

Self-sabotage is real, and it’s debilitating.

It 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.)

You may not even be aware that you’re engaging in self-sabotaging behaviors; it’s just what you do.

It’s the way you are.

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.

And yet they keep happening because you’re expecting them to work like they once did.

But they don’t serve you and have severe consequences:

Repeating the Same Mistakes: When you keep taking the same action, you’ll make the same mistakes, and when you make the same mistakes, you’ll suffer very similar consequences, with very similar emotions:

Frustration/Sadness/Annoyance/Fear/Anger.

Negative Self-Talk: If you’re stuck in a self-sabotage pattern, you’ll start to get down on yourself…