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6 Simple Ways to End Self-Sabotaging Behaviors

Life Is Love School
2 min readJun 10, 2021

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By Life Is Love School

Do you know what kills the most dreams? It’s not lack of education, money, preparation, but our internal resistance.

The more we want something, the stronger the resistance inside of us fights back.

Sometimes it just feels better (and easier) to self-sabotage and control our failure than face the possibility of giving it all yet still failing.

We are afraid to be left with the possibility that our best is just not good enough.

We might also suffer from low self-worth. We’re so used to being overlooked, mistreated, exploited that we feel undeserving of success or happiness. The cognitive dissonance is so strong that we self-sabotage as soon as things are starting to go well.

These are only some of the reasons why we self-sabotage, and in this episode, I list more.
The net is, change is hard for everyone, and the resistance is real.

Despite how hard change is, it is necessary if we want better, whether that’s more financial freedom, a more fulfilling career, or a healthier body.

Change requires us to overcome resistance. We can’t allow our chattering brain to start producing excuses and a million reasons why we can’t/shouldn’t/won’t do what…

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Life Is Love School
Life Is Love School

Written by Life Is Love School

Entrepreneur, Google/Microsoft manager, traveler. Words in Ascent, Hello Love, Change Becomes You. I run support groups for adult survivors of childhood trauma.

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