How to Stop Self-sabotage from Holding You Back

How to Stop Self-sabotage from Holding You Back

Gillian Thomson (MCIPD, MEng) Gillian Thomson (MCIPD, MEng)

Gillian Thomson (MCIPD, MEng)

Head of People at Verlume | Award winning NXD | HR Ninja ??

发布日期: 2020年10月8日
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In 2014, Jim Carrey went viral with a YouTube video that poignantly described what holds many of us back. He notes in the video, 

“You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what’s happening here and the decisions we make in this moment, which are based on either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.”

As Carrey illustrates, we are all capable of self-sabotaging our own goals. In this blog, I’ll share some of the reasons that we self-sabotage, the problems that it poses for our personal and professional life and advice on how you can break free [Click here to continue reading...]

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