Have you ever felt like you reached a plateau and could go no higher?
If so, you’re not alone. Many people sabotage their own success. This article teaches you how to reverse self-sabotage. In my work as a business coach for the past 15 years, I have had many people as questions like, “Why can’t I be more successful? Why do I stop myself? I feel like I am my own worst enemy.”
If you have ever felt this way, you’re probably suffering from a pattern of self-sabotage in which you get in your own way. While your conscious mind is saying, “I want to be more successful,” your subconscious mind is caught in a “fear of success syndrome.”
There are several things that cause people to be afraid of success:
1. They associate success with stress
It is a prevailing idea in our society that if you want to be successful, you have to work hard, struggle and strive. Many of my clients have done that and reached a place of “burnout.” Then, they are faced with the dilemma of wanting to move forward, but having a very unpleasant memory of what it was like before.
They need to work hard at reprogramming the self-limiting belief, “To be successful you have to work very, very hard,” and replace it with an empowered belief, such as, “I am committed to working smarter, not harder.”
Come back next week to read about step 2…