Self-Sabotage
Feelings of Worthlessness
- Exaggerating other people’s achievements, and diminishing your own.
- Taking even unfair or misguided criticism to heart.
- Letting others put you down.
Whatever your personal self-sabotaging behaviour is, you MUST overcome it if you are to make the most of your career. If you allow yourself to engage in negative self-talk, you erode your self-confidence and self-esteem. And with every failed attempt, you “prove” to yourself that you can’t or shouldn’t do the thing you want.
And as you continue spiralling down, you become more and more frustrated, discouraged, and angry with yourself. These feelings trap you and keep you from doing whatever it is you need to do to break free.
Fortunately, you can escape self-sabotaging behaviour and this starts with recognizing the negative messages you send to yourself.