Are you trying your best to work on yourself, change your habits, and improve your quality of life in general? If you are not seeing results, maybe you get stuck in a self-sabotage circle from time to time.
With a purpose to grow, we have to identify those triggers and toxic behavior we are doing to ourselves.
Here’s what self-sabotage circle usually looks like:
- Perfectionism at all costs. This vicious circle usually starts with your wish for everything to be perfect and you will strive for that at all costs.
- Lack of rest and sleep hygiene. When you imagine to achieve more than you physically or mentally can, you will start neglecting your habits and self-care. This usually starts with disrupted sleeping pattern.
- Bad eating habits – either overearing or starving yourself. Right after lack of sleep, we have bad eating habits. You will neglect your health and only fixate on the task you want to finish, and you want to finish it fast and of course, perfectly.
- Overworking. Overworking doesn’t end, despite the fact that you see it’s all too much for you.
- Hyperfixating on a certain flex/issue. You start fixating on that one issue you want to fix, rather than taking a look at the whole picture and admiring what you’ve already acomplished.
- Doing it all alone. Of course, you won’t ask for help either.
- Doom scrolling. In the end, you feel exhausted, give up, or get sick. You’ll try to distract your thoughts until you’re ready to start the vicious circle once again.
