Self sabotage is about getting in your own way. There are reasons your mind will throw up road blocks to your success. The most common one is, it doesn’t want to change. Life is good the way it is… even if it really isn’t. The mind’s job is to protect the status quo. It does this with a number of tools.

Fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) are the favorite tools of the mind. Procrastination and encouraging self defeating behavior are some others. Anytime you’re leaving your comfort zone you will encounter one if not all of them.

You may have expended enough energy in procrastination and self defeating behaviors and beliefs, that you could have a seven figure income in a year! All you’d have to do is turn that energy around. Turn procrastination into persistence. Turn self defeating behaviors and beliefs into, “I CAN! I BELIEVE I CAN! I BELIEVE IN MYSELF!”

Did you know you can have anything you want if you give up the belief that you can’t or shouldn’t have it or don’t deserve it?

You CAN! It’s the way life is set up.

The trick is to believe it… To avoid the self sabotage trap. How do you know when you’re in that trap? When you find yourself in situations that cause you to overreact, or you keep making the same mistakes over and over even though you’re aware that the outcome is going to be the same. Then you’re in a self sabotage loop.

How do you break this loop?

  • Sometimes it only requires a flip of a mental switch.
  • Other times, you will find yourself writing for days and reprogramming your old limiting beliefs with affirmations and visualization.
  • Sometimes you need help.

Do you want to stop sabotaging yourself? Or does it serve some purpose that you aren’t even aware of?

Take a moment and look at your life. Are you where you want to be? Are you doing the things you want to do? Are you making the kind of money you deserve?

If not… Why?!? What is holding you back from living your dreams?

The number one cause of not living your dreams, is self sabotage!

Do something about it today.

Take care,

Gwen Baran

P.S. If you haven’t already, you may also want to read this article about the Fear of Happiness.