Self-Sabotage

Self-sabotage can be described as any action that interferes or gets in the way of you achieving your goals. These goals can be daily challenges you face in life or your ultimate dreams and ambitions but something in you stops those goals from being achieved. You might avoid an important task that would lead to a promotion, or ruin a relationship that was actually good for you, or maybe you put that dream or ambition to one side to think about later, all these behaviours suggest that self-sabotage is in action.

There can be many reasons why we self-sabotage, but the most common reasons are related to our inner beliefs and values being in conflict with our goals and desires. Lots of people are guilty of self-sabotage at some point so with that in mind we have come up with four profiles that examine some of the most common causes of self-sabotaging behaviour. These are:
1: The Low Self Worth Saboteur
2: The Controlling Saboteur
3: The Fearful Saboteur
4: The Familiar Saboteur

We may find that we are guilty of sabotaging our success and happiness in one, two or all of these areas. Some of us may feel like self-sabotage is not something we struggle with at all. However, it is worth understanding the different reasons that we may self-sabotage so we can be self-aware of our own or indeed others behaviour to ensure that we don't fall into bad habits in the future.

There are many benefits to understanding self-sabotage behaviour and while it's not always easy to change with a greater level of self-awareness it is possible and coaching can help to do this.

As coaching is all about asking questions to raise self-awareness, thinking creatively, looking at things from a different perspective and putting new behaviours into practice to create long term change.

We've carefully chosen some micro-coaching exercises and challenges to help you work on self-sabotage.

And remember, throughout the module. You can make commitments to yourself to start to do some things differently.

So, lets make a start now.