Break!ng Through

I decided to start this series after a conversation with my counselor that I see and then a follow-up conversation with my wife, Haylea.

My counselor, Margaret, asked me a complex question, “if [Satan] was going to take you down, how would he do it?”

Regardless of your religion, this is a powerful question. Rephrased, it simply reads, “if something was going to stop you from achieving your goals or stop you from having the life you want, what would it be?”

If something was going to stop you from achieving your goals or stop you from having the life you want, what would it be?

I went home and asked my wife what she thought. She answered a few hours later… “Self-sabotage.” Unfamiliar with what she meant I asked her to share with me.

She read this excerpt from Psychology Today, “Behavior is said to be self-sabotaging when it creates problems in daily life and interferes with long-standing goals. The most common self-sabotaging behaviors include procrastination, self-medication with drugs or alcohol, comfort eating, and forms of self-injury such as cutting.”

In other words, self-sabotage is doing something today that prevents you from achieving your long-term goals.

My wife and I are starting this series to hold ourselves accountable on our journey against self-sabotage. We hope you can use and leverage our findings to overcome self-sabotage.