5 Ways You're Sabotaging Your Success

5 Surprising Ways You're Sabotaging Your Success

Everyone’s entitled to have a bad day every now and then. But, when that bad day turns into a bad week, or even a bad month, it’s time to pause and assess--before your reputation ends up on the line.?

To be effective and respected as a #leader in business, you must be aware of the attitudes and energy you exude. During times of pressure and stress, the brain defaults to familiar behavior patterns. Left unchecked, these patterns may be destructive and undetectable until the consequences are blatantly obvious and alarming.

This is #selfsabotage at its best. Let's dive in to identify the five common self-sabotaging personas that undermine future opportunities and successes for some of the most talented #executives and #entrepreneurs.

Self-sabotage personas include:

• The Complainer. Constantly pointing out what’s going wrong in a situation prevents you from presenting yourself as a problem-solver and expert in the room.
• The Defender. Always having an explanation for your actions–even when they’re not working–prevents you from building trust with clients, customers and team members.
• The Fault-Finder. If you’re finding a problem with every solution, you’ll never find a solution to the problem.
• The Minimizer. Underestimating your ability to handle problems as they arise is the perfect excuse to avoid important tasks.
• The Fatalist. When we give power to the worst case scenario, we can end up manifesting it and in the process, overlook opportunities for success.

Do you identify with one or more of these self-sabotaging personas?

"Self-doubt does more to sabotage individual potential than external limitations put together." -Brian Tracy

Developing awareness of your sabotaging persona is the first step in disrupting the destructive pattern. The next step is to adapt a positive behavior to disrupt and replace the unfavorable behavior pattern of the persona. I cover those tactics in Defeat Self-Sabotage in Just Five Words.