Breaking Free
Escaping the Self-Sabotage Cycle and Embracing Personal Growth
How often do you struggle to make ends meet and accomplish what you should while dreaming of a better life?
Ask yourself:
Is there a disconnect between your desires and your doing?
Do you take the easy way out, like skipping steps in a project, to save time?
Are you in the habit of falsely claiming to have completed a task that you actually haven’t?
Do you take unauthorized breaks, like extending your lunch break without permission?
Are you someone who claims to have done more than you actually did, like exaggerating your contributions to a team project?
Do you feel it is ok to do that since you aren’t being paid or treated as you should?
Do you realize you are in a self-sabotaging cycle?
This cycle is a pattern of behavior in which you undermine your own success. You may not be receiving the salary you should and may be mistreated, but you are actively impeding the success you so desperately desire.
Every shortcut damages your performance. Every deception erodes your reputation. You are undermining your own credibility.
The truth is that prosperity and success are not about externals, but our mindset and actions. When we respond by compromising our integrity and breaking the rules, we develop patterns of unreliability. Opportunities are for consistent, trustworthy people who do right, even in challenging situations.
We can make much more of our lives when we align our attitudes and actions with our goals.
Live a life of integrity even in the most difficult moments.
Be reliable.
You can increase your earning and value if you will simply take control of your life.
Do not allow yourself to continue sabotaging yourself.
It adds up.
Whenever we choose to be dishonest instead of diligent, we reinforce a mindset that keeps us in the cycle of loss and scarcity.
Our actions today shape our opportunities for tomorrow. We have no excuse for doing wrong, regardless of how we are paid or treated. We must build the foundation for our true success today.
It is our decision. We stay in the corner-cutting business, where we take shortcuts and compromise our integrity, or we break free from the cycle of scarcity and commit to the more difficult path of integrity. We are building tomorrow: either prosperity or poverty. We are laying a foundation or digging a more bottomless pit of limitation. What do you want to do?
Break free today. Do right no matter how you are treated. Do right because it is right, and you march to the beat of a different drummer. In doing so, you can take pride in your integrity and resist the mold of the whining, crying, cheating, and failure the world so desperately wants to make you.