Change
One strategy is to avoid what you need to do and then spend lots of energy trying to find out why you are avoiding it. This is a great way to continue to avoid taking action. Another strategy is to assume you need to feel like doing something before you do it.
Gregg Krech • The Art of Taking Action: Lessons from Japanese Psychology
Knowing versus Doing has long been a shame swamp for me. I know so many things; I know what supports my mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health; I know what to do. Yet doing those things consistently, regularly, ritually, routinely… has always been a struggle. “You should know better” has long been ringing in my ears during moments
... See moreLisa Olivera • Tending to the shame of stuckness
When we self-sabotage, it is often because we have a negative association between achieving the goal we aspire to and being the kind of person who has or does that thing.
Brianna Wiest • The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
we have a completely clear sense that how we’re behaving is bad and counterproductive, but it doesn’t get us to stop.