Six Steps From Sabotage to Success

Do you feel uncomfortable with new changes? Have you lost the same 10 pounds over and over? Did you “accidentally” forget to set the alarm clock the night before you began your new job or the first day back to college? Have you pushed relationships out of your life and then wondered years later, “What ever happened to that wonderful person?”

What’s familiar is comfortable, even if it’s unhealthy or self-defeating. Therefore, it’s normal to resist change but that doesn’t mean we have to be victims and stay stuck in undesirable situations. The following Six Steps From Sabotage to Success can help you to begin accepting and maybe even embracing resistance. You can learn how to push through the resistance and get the rewards that wait for you on the other side.

1. Awareness Is The First Step Of Change
Once you’re aware of how you sabotage yourself, you’re in a position to do something about it. (Read more about Step One)

2. What You Say is What You Get
Some of us defeat ourselves before we even get started by thinking thoughts of fear and failure. One way to make changes in your thinking and eventually your self-defeating behavior, is repetition of new ideas. (Read more about Step Two)

3. See it, Believe it, Make it Real
There will be many times in your growth process when you might want to quit. It’s at times like these that you need to focus on the end result you desire. A couple of tools you can use to help you focus on positive end results are: a future diary and a visualization board. (Read more about Step Three)

4. Success Breeds Success
Any little baby step you can take towards achieving your goal counts. If you keep taking steps in the right direction, you’ll eventually get to where you want to go. It’s important to acknowledge and reward success. If you only acknowledge your failure it will be easier to quit and to feel justified in doing so. (Read more about Step Four)

5. Stop Settling and Start Living
Your current beliefs are limited by your experience. Breaking out of your comfort zone means being willing to see all possibilities, not just those that support your existing belief system. If you keep doing the same things over and over you will always get the same results. Living fully means being willing to take risks. (Read more about Step Five)

6. Quitting is the Only Way to Fail
Sometimes change is slow but we are constantly changing whether we see it or not. Despite outside appearances, there is no such thing as an overnight success. There is no such thing as instant change. When you are trying to learn a new way of doing something, it takes persistence and patience. (Read more about Step Six)

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These six steps are taken from the book From Sabotage to Success.

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