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Published: April 21, 2023, 5 a.m.

Today on SelfWork we\u2019re going to focus on self-sabotage \u2013 when you are doing things or not doing things that seem to get in the way of achieving something or creating the life you say you want.

I want to talk more about the fear that\u2019s underneath self-sabotage. Because one way of looking at sabotage is that it\u2019s not sabotage at all. It\u2019s really one part of you \u2013 the part that\u2019s afraid \u2013 protecting that fear or avoiding it. So, what can seem as if you\u2019re \u201cgetting in your own way\u201d can actually be your mind working to keep you safe from a fear that you may be conscious of, or not conscious of at all.

Let's focus on a quartet of players in the self-sabotage realm: procrastination, perfectionism, a negative self-fulfilling prophecy, and of course, imposter syndrome. And as always, we'll talk about... what you can do about it.

The Speakpipe voicemail for today is from a woman who\u2019s realized that, in order to have a sense of control, that she not only lives out her plans for today, but tries to complete things early \u2013 things she might have a plan to do tomorrow \u2013 she does today. And yet as she says, \u201cThat\u2019s not how time works." Loved her comment and wanted to share.

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