Overcoming Self Sabotage - A Quick Hack You Can Use Immediately

What's the secret to overcoming self-sabotage? If you're not moving steadily in the direction of what you say you want, here is a quick hack to change that.

I am sure I'm not the only one that can get massively in my own way, right?

Are We Self Sabotaging?

We know what we should be doing, and yet we're just not doing it. This really is a quick hack. I want it to be something that you can use immediately. You don't need to go into some big psychological examination of yourself.  When you start to understand those actions that you should be taking, but you are not, the gap that creates self-sabotage is often the place where we overthink. We go into analysis paralysis.

Doing the Right Thing...

We know what we should be doing. Then, all of a sudden our next thoughts are, "Well, is that really the right thing to do?"

We start second-guessing ourselves and judging. Our fears and anxieties come up. We perhaps start to worry about what other people would think. Thinking that what we were going to do is too big. We find ourselves distracted and doing everything but.

The Secret to Overcoming Self Sabotage

Here's the thing. 

For those things you know you should be doing next, the ones that would boost your business, the hack is speed.

It's all about speed! When you've made a decision to do something, how quickly can you act on it? It really is as fast as the click of a finger. You're getting into action.

The action doesn't have to be anything massive. It could be about writing down that very next idea as it pops into your mind. Getting it on paper. The next idea after that might be about how are you going to act on that idea. 

The Practice of Acting Quickly

Set yourself up so that when you make decisions around the things that you truly believe are going to help grow your business, you start to build the practice of acting very quickly.

I'm talking about breaking it down into a couple of very simple action steps that probably take you less than two minutes to perform. It's that speed that helps bypass self-sabotage because now you're getting into action. It's the speed and the momentum that is a real gift to you in getting rapid business growth and moving your goals forwards a lot quicker.