#560 4 Ways to Stop Self-Sabotage at Work

Hi, I'm Helen and you're listening to one of our squiggly career shortcuts. These episodes are designed to be really quick to listen to and really easy for you to take action. We try to take a topic that we know that is relevant to lots of people and I want to talk to you today about the topic of self-sabotage. Now this is a really big topic and we've done lots of different podcasts around building your squiggly career confidence, which I definitely recommend that you have a listen to you.

I'll let you know which ones at the end of this today. But I really want to talk a little bit about what self-sabotage might look and feel like and some simple things that you can start doing because self-sabotage really gets in the way of your squiggly career and it is not about the way that your manager acts or the work that you're doing is about what you're thinking and what you're feeling and how that affects how you are showing up. So if you are self-sabotaging, it is likely that there is a voice in your head. We often talk about this as like the inner critic.

And what that voice is doing is telling you what you shouldn't do, what you can't do, what you're not very good at doing. And it is a really hard voice to turn the volume down on. And it tends to be really loud in the moments when you want to be at your best. So it's a job interview or it's a presentation or it's a one-to-one with your manager. Like, you know, the moments, the moments for you that really, really matter, unfortunately, they are the moments when self-sabotage seems to be the most significant.

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