The Power of Fear: How to Turn Self-Sabotage into Self-Discovery
Learn how to recognize and overcome your fears, and turn self-sabotage into a powerful tool for personal growth and transformation.
I have stopped writing and expressing myself for quite some time now, and I was coming up with all sorts of excuses about it. How nobody is even interested, how nobody cares, how I don’t have time for it, and I have better things to do.
I was fully aware that it is procrastination at best and self-sabotage at worst, but I can be so convincing to myself that I always managed to talk myself out of restarting it. Coming up with excuses outweighed the obvious benefits of writing, so I just gave in, silently fuming at myself, accusing myself of being lazy and eventually blaming it on my lack of talent.
This got to the point that I even stopped reading other people’s work, because either it was poor quality. It was a distorted mirror, proving to me that even those who can’t, will still do it just because they believe in themselves more than I do in myself, or it was just so great that I decided not to put myself out there to be compared to them and fail miserably.
The reality is that I am not as bad as I think I am, but I am not as consistent and…
