Stop the Sabotage – Erase the internal obstacles that hold you back. Interview with Sean Smith.
As entrepreneurs and small business owners, are you getting the results you want? If not, you might be sabotaging your success without even knowing it because of deep-rooted issues you didn’t realize you had.
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This week’s guest, Master Results Coach Sean Smith, will teach you how to stop the self-sabotage and erase the internal obstacles that are holding you back from all your goals and dreams in your life and business.
Sean describes how to recognize when we’re stuck in patterns and bad habits. In fact, these patterns were created by us to help protect us. We learned these habits in response to something else, and are actually solutions to some deeper problem or issue.
The key is to figure out what these deeper problems or issues are, understand your personal details around the issue, and then reframe your interpretation around the issue. You may need help and guidance to do this, but it’s worth the effort.
It would be nice if there was a one-size-fits-all solution for all of our root issues, but as Sean tells us, we have to do our own work applied directly to our own story and our own details.
We spent a lot of our discussion time understanding the process of how we sabotage our results. I love the example Sean used to illustrate how this works and I’m now enlightened about how self-judgement can cause so many other limiting behaviors, such as perfectionism or procrastination.
As entrepreneurs, we judge ourselves constantly. The decisions we make, the projects we take on, how we spend our time, the results we achieved, etc. The list goes on. Most of us have had some negative experiences (probably in childhood) that led us to decide that we don’t want to be judged. So, our powerful subconscious mind goes to work preventing us from finishing projects – that way we can’t be judged, right?
Our task is not to work on the symptoms like perfection or procrastination – time management courses will not help you! These can only be solved once we deal with our fear about being judged and the perceived risk of pain associated with completing our projects.
As soon as we remove the risk, we remove the resistance.
Another important insight is the biggest hidden obstacle for most entrepreneurs is the fear of success. Remember, this is below the surface. Here we are trying had to make our mark on the world and somehow we’re not able to make it big. It seems like our big break is right around the corner – so what’s happening? Just like the example above, we may be sabotaging ourselves because of some hidden fear we don’t know exists.
Catch the interview to hear the details about what Sean says about sabotage and what to do about it.
