Most of us can see self-sabotage in others, but can rarely recognize it in ourselves. When it comes to managing our career or art, sometimes sabotage manifests itself as procrastination. Psychologists agree that procrastination is a common form of negating one’s self.
There are many reasons we choose to sabotage our efforts. Possibly we don’t feel worthy of success, we feel like an impostor, or even that we are a people-pleaser and think that if we win, someone else has to loose.
We say we want to achieve but when we get close to our goal we may feel guilty. We might even purposefully mess things by forgetting to set our alarm and end up late to an appointment.
How can we stop self-sabotage? It starts by getting outside of our heads, getting active, focusing on what we want until it's complete and stopping criticism of ourselves and others. If you commit to write seven pages of a script in one afternoon, the plan to empower yourself would entail that you follow through with that promise, instead of writing three pages and berating your work.
Have you ever looked at a successful person and thought, I can do better than that?
It’s interesting how people with less credentials, less talent, or superficial things like average looks and little money, plow through and achieve because they aren’t caught up in over thinking things or the dreaded “analysis paralysis.”
We close WITH our quote of the week from French romantic painter Eugene Delacroix who reminds us that:
“The Artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.”
