What happens when life gets “too good”?
You know the moments when everything feels so easy and effortless.
You lose those 10 lbs with ease and blow your income goal out of the water without even breaking a sweat. And it just so happens to be the same day you hit all green lights going to work, stop by your favorite coffee shop to find that you are the 1000th customer and win free coffee for life! (My dream!) With a perma-grin on your face you float into work and find that you just got a huge bonus and you can’t help but ask…”How does it get any better than this?!”
Then…
Reality sets in and you start thinking about how perfect everything has been lately and you wonder why it’s all changed. What’s up? What’s new?
You get nervous. Anxiety strikes and your vibration immediately shifts and you almost don’t know how to handle this new found luck.
It feels foreign, unnatural for you, and while it’s been the best week of your life, you can’t quite shake this uneasy feeling.
Then…
You drive home worried, only to hit every single red light, get caught in traffic for hours and pull into the driveway to find not one, but two nails in your tires. You walk in the door, stub your toe, trip over the rug and do a giant face plant on the floor just before you hobble into the kitchen to find your pipes have burst and water is running all over your beautiful wood floors.
Your magical wonderland of a day has turned to shit in the matter of hours and you can’t quite figure out what has happened.
This is a wildly over exaggerated example of classic self-sabotage.
These are exactly the kinds of things you might see happen when life gets too good.
You might also experience things like, excessive bills after making quite a bit of money or quickly gaining back all the weight you recently lost. You might even find yourself manifesting fights with friends or loved ones or losing things you recently purchased.
And the list goes on.
What is self-sabotage & why do we do it?
As creatures of habit, human beings thrive on routines and knowing what to expect for the most part. When we start doing or experiencing things that are outside of what we have come to expect and what has been comfortable for us (even if it’s uncomfortable and we want to change it.), we tend to create situations (subconsciously) to bring our experiences back to ‘reality’.
Have you ever noticed how you tend to hit a limit when it comes to your income, weight loss, or another similar goal? You hit that magic number and can’t seem to break through the ceiling?
You may have hit what Gay Hendricks in his book The Big Leap calls an upper limit problem.
When things get too good, too fast, we tend to unconsciously (and energetically) pump the breaks and sabotage our success.
Logically it doesn’t make sense, but it’s something we all do from time-to-time. It’s also what tends to happen when we expand our experience without also expanding our mindset.
Your mindset is the key to overcoming (and limiting) the self-sabotaging behavior that might come up as you continue to grow and evolve. By clearing the blocks and limiting beliefs we have about what is normal for us, we open our minds and lives to endless possibilities, therefore limiting any future self-sabotage.
The moral of the story is this: When you do your mindset work, you will not only create amazing experiences in your life, but you’ll also continue expanding beyond your current limits.
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