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Can I Please Stop Second-Guessing and Self-Sabotaging Myself?
I would very much like to be done second-guessing and self-sabotaging.
Despite the effort I have been making for over a decade to live life on my own terms, choosing my own paths — there is an ongoing challenge I can never seem to shake.
Every path I choose, every approach I take, even when I am being super-mindful — I am second-guessing and self-sabotaging.
Having just finished reading Gary John Bishop’s Stop Doing that Sh*t: End Self-Sabotage and Demand Your Life Back, I have a much clearer view of the how and why of my self-sabotaging behaviors.
That clarity is great. Now it’s up to me to apply it.
I am going to share this with you now because I believe that might be the best means by which I can stop doing it.
How am I second-guessing and self-sabotaging?
According to Mr. Bishop, self-sabotage comes from conclusions that were made long ago that embed themselves into your subconscious. There, they are rooted — and jam up the works when said conclusions are challenged.
Mr. Bishop asserts that there are three conclusions we draw that becomes the root of self-sabotage.
