Personal Development - What Are Your Habits Of Self-Sabotage?
Posted in Personal Development on November 15th, 2009 by Ryan Biddulph –
We’ve all been there. You’re ready to receive the huge promotion, then…..BOOM…..you flub up the interview at the worst possible moment. Another blown opportunity, you think.
This is a lifetime cycle for many people. It’s like they’re programmed to be unsuccessful, which of course is true.
So few realize that they’ve been conditioned to receive certain results in life. A success or a failure. Thin or fat. Happy or angry. You entered the world with a clean slate. The problem is that most people pick up some REALLY bad habits along the way. And they usually hold on to them for the remainder of their lives. Not because they’re secretly masochistic, not because they enjoy being miserable, but because they’ve been programmed to think and act a certain way.
Who wrote the code? Your parents, siblings, friends, and society. Anybody who you’ve come into contact with has the power to influence you. In most cases they had some pretty faulty coding themselves. Lots of bugs, viruses, and bad code passed down from generation to generation.
These people didn’t know any better so they passed their corrupted programming to you.
Guess what? You are the master coder of your life. Bill Gates has nothing on your programming ability when it comes to mind power. Every line of faulty code, every snippet, can be hunted down and fixed. By You. You are the debugger.
Your life will improve with the realization that you are fully responsible for it. Every person has the inherent power to choose or reject thoughts. Choose the proper thoughts and feelings, choose the proper programming. When a kid, you had no idea that you could consciously choose what to think. You certainly weren’t aware that you could identify negative habits and release them at will.
Those days are over though. Kids have an excuse; adults don’t. It’s time to step up to the plate and realize that you can choose what to think and what not to think. To weed out negative habits and replace them with positive ones.
My question today is what are your habits of self-sabotage? This is where the process starts. To cure a disease you have to know the disease.
I’ve overcome an issue with one of my online ventures. I developed the obsessive compulsive habit of checking emails for opt-in’s and queries. Over and over. Everything is going great with the opportunity so this was a deeper issue which I had to uncover. Finally I realized that it came down to a self-worth issue. I needed attention, I needed the amount of time and effort I put into my marketing campaign to be validated by OTHERS immediately, or else it wasn’t good enough. I wasn’t good enough. Where this feeling came from, I don’t know. That’ll take deeper meditation and serious introspection.
Coming to this realization was a relief. I now go about my work in a light manner, knowing that speaking from my soul means that I’ve received God’s validation, which is The Validation of Validations. I don’t feel the need to attract wealth.
I’ve recently performed a massive overhaul of my blog. I’ve changed the design and my posting strategy. I enjoy posting to my blog and chatting with readers. I am a more responsible and considerate tweeter on twitter. All because I took the time to find one instance where I was stepping in the way of my success. It was always me. Others had nothing to do with it.
What are your habits of self-sabotage?
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