The unspoken belief behind self-improvement is "I'll be worthy when..."
My theory for self-sabotage is that if you’ve always worked hard, you believe that how much you deserve something comes from how much effort you put in, so when something great happens for you, you feel like you don’t deserve it because you haven’t earned it, so you turn it down and go after something more challenging, something that gives you that... See more
Sherryx.comSomewhere along the way, we adopt this dangerous and debilitating belief system: I am what I accomplish and how well I accomplish it.