How to Stop Self Sabotaging
Summary
- To overcome self-sabotage, I first modify my surroundings to make detrimental behaviors more difficult for myself.
- As an example, to prevent self-sabotage while trying to lose weight, I don't keep junk food at home and avoid using food delivery services like DoorDash or Uber Eats.
- Additionally, to encourage exercise, I make sure to have exercise equipment readily available instead of avoiding it.
- I also keep a weight scale to regularly monitor my progress, which discourages me from negative behaviors.
- Before criticizing myself for self-sabotage, I take a hard look at whether my environment is structured to support or hinder my goals.
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How To Take Action
A good way to stop self-sabotage is to change your environment. Here's how you can do it. Let's say you want to stop eating junk food to be healthier. The first thing you should do is stop keeping junk food in your house. If it's not there, you can't eat it! Also, don't use food delivery apps because they make it too easy to get not-so-good food.
Next, if you want to exercise more, have some workout gear at home, like a jump rope or some weights. That way, it's easier to exercise because you don't have to go somewhere else to do it. And keep a scale in your bathroom to check your weight. This can help you see your progress and stay on track.
Before you get upset with yourself for doing things that get in the way of your goals, look around. Check if your home, your office, or your routine makes it easy or hard for you to do what you want. Are there things around that distract you or tempt you to do the stuff you're trying to stop? Like a video game in easy reach when you're trying to work? Move it!
Remember, make these changes step by step. You don't have to do everything all at once. Pick one thing that you think will help you the most and start there. Once you've got that one thing down, move to the next. Good luck!
Quotes by Leila Hormozi
"Rework my environment to make it harder for me to sabotage myself rather than easier"
– Leila Hormozi
"If you're trying to lose weight, don't stock your house with junk food"
– Leila Hormozi
"Don't have a door Dash account and Uber Eats account if you're trying to avoid sabotage"
– Leila Hormozi
"Make sure that you don't have any exercise equipment around if you don't want to work out"
– Leila Hormozi
"Throw away my weight scale because I wouldn't want to look at how much weight I'm gaining"
– Leila Hormozi
Full Transcript
how do I get over self-sabotage so the first thing that I would do is I rework my environment to make it harder for me to sabotage myself rather than easier so an example of this would be if you're trying to lose weight if I wanted to sabotage myself what would I do I would stock my house with junk food I would make sure that I had a door Dash account an Uber Eats account a ton of snacks in the house I would make sure that I didn't have any exercise equipment around because I didn't want to have to work out oh I would probably also throw away my weight scale because I wouldn't want to look at how much weight I'm gaining because if I saw that I might stop sabotaging myself before you start asking being like what's wrong with me why do I keep sabotaging myself look at your environment and ask yourself is my environment making it easier or harder for me to do so
