The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

there is an ongoing gap between where you are and where you want to be—and your efforts to close it are consistently met with your own resistance, pain, and discomfort—self-sabotage is almost always at work.

The task in front of you is silent, simple, and monumental. It is a feat most do not ever get to the point of attempting. You must now learn agility, resilience, and self-understanding.

for many people, their fears and attachments are very often just symptoms of deeper issues for which they do not have any better way to cope.

self-sabotage is simply the presence of an unconscious need that is being fulfilled by the self-sabotaging behavior.

our coping mechanisms have spiraled so out of control that we can no longer resist the feelings we were attempting to hide.

going out of your way to avoid any possible situation that could bring up something frustrating or uncomfortable, because you have no tools to be able to handle that feeling.

Self-sabotage is what happens when we refuse to consciously meet our innermost needs, often because we do not believe we are capable of handling them.

Sometimes, we sabotage our professional success because what we really want is to create art, even if it will make us seem less ambitious

Get angry, determined, and allow yourself to develop tunnel vision with one thing and one thing only at the end: that you will not go on as you are.