Self-sabotage behavior is the state of thinking, which prohibits you from achieving what you wanting to achieve in life. It includes behaviors that interferes in your normal life activity, which will affect short-term and long-term goals. These functions work consciously and sometimes sub-consciously. It is the kind of barrier between one’s goal and one’s achievement needs.
Forms of Self-Sabotage Behaviors and Thoughts
There are some behaviors and thoughts that fall under the forms of self-sabotage. It includes self-destructive behaviors, self-preservation, over thinking and disorganization. These behaviors are mostly sub-consciously working within the mind of a person. These forms of behaviors and thoughts distract a person’s attention from the target and engage in a conflicting situation.
Self-Sabotage Habits
The following attributes best describe the most common self-sabotage behaviors:
Procrastination: Procrastination is the act of delaying, post ponding, or the avoidance of doing a task that needs to be done in a given time period. It could be a state of intentional delay of concluding a task regardless of knowing that it might have some negative outcome. This behavior will affect you from obtaining a specific goal or achievement.
Negative self-talk: It’s a proven fact that negative thinking patterns leads to negative behaviors every day life. This behavior prevents goal attainment and leads to self-destruction.
Self-injury: Self-injury is a form of behavior which includes hurting oneself or cutting body parts to resolve the feeling worthlessness. It is also a attribute of self-sabotage.
Self-sabotage; A root to many problems
Self-sabotage is the behavior or thought of blaming oneself or damaging one’s esteem related to any task. This form of behavior engages a person into various problems and issues such as stress, lack of consistency, low self-efficacy and many more.
Solution for self-sabotage behaviors
Self-sabotaging is the condition where people are unaware of the condition or habits. It changes them sub-consciously and effects the daily life functions. In psychological context, there are many behavioral therapies that can help in changing and interpreting the pattern of self-sabotaging actions in people. It will develop self-regulation behaviors in people and make them think rationally. Motivational therapies can help with daily functions and reconnect people with obtainable values and goals.