Pull Up Self-Sabotage by the Roots
March 19, 2013
What is self-sabotage?
Self-Sabotage is the Symptom, Not the Problem
If you think of self-sabotaging behaviors as weeds in your garden, I think this concept will make more sense.
So let’s take a nice garden. You have the flowers growing, a nice place to sit and relax and a cup of tea. As you’re looking around admiring your garden, you notice this big, ugly weed right in the middle. You can’t keep your eye off it. It is absolutely ruining your nice afternoon.
You get up and try to yank it out, but only the leaves come off the top. The root is still in the ground. “That’s okay,” you think to yourself. “At least the garden looks good again.”
The next week you’re sitting in the garden with some friends and all of a sudden you notice the same weed and a couple of its buddies. “Oh my gosh! I pulled that out last week? And it is back, but worse!” you say.
So, you get up and pull it and its friends out. Same thing week after week. Pretty soon, all you see are weeds. They have taken over and you can’t keep up. Now, you’re overwhelmed with weeds and don’t even want to go outside so you can relax.
This is insanity...We do things to address the problems we have in our life, but we don’t address the root of what is creating them. So, instead of pulling the root of the weed, we only pull off the parts we can see to manage things for a while...
Locating the Roots...
We really have no idea what is going on unless we can find the roots. This is where our A-H-A Solutions program comes in. This program helps you track the root based on evaluating the self-sabotaging behaviors (the leaves). We have developed twelve different types of roots, or attachments as they are called, that show themselves through a series of common behaviors. Using our self-assessment worksheet you will be able to pinpoint which attachment is hiding under the surface, waiting to mess you up.
So let’s take a nice garden. You have the flowers growing, a nice place to sit and relax and a cup of tea. As you’re looking around admiring your garden, you notice this big, ugly weed right in the middle. You can’t keep your eye off it. It is absolutely ruining your nice afternoon.
You get up and try to yank it out, but only the leaves come off the top. The root is still in the ground. “That’s okay,” you think to yourself. “At least the garden looks good again.”
The next week you’re sitting in the garden with some friends and all of a sudden you notice the same weed and a couple of its buddies. “Oh my gosh! I pulled that out last week? And it is back, but worse!” you say.
So, you get up and pull it and its friends out. Same thing week after week. Pretty soon, all you see are weeds. They have taken over and you can’t keep up. Now, you’re overwhelmed with weeds and don’t even want to go outside so you can relax.
This is insanity...We do things to address the problems we have in our life, but we don’t address the root of what is creating them. So, instead of pulling the root of the weed, we only pull off the parts we can see to manage things for a while...
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