Personal Development · Library course

Why You Self-Sabotage (and How to Stop)

Find what a stuck goal is quietly protecting, name the belief that keeps it in place, and run one small test to see whether that belief still holds.

  • Beginner
  • 16 lessons
  • 44 min to complete
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A goal you care about has sat untouched for months, and every fix you tried held for about a week. Often a second goal you never said out loud is working against it.

This course gives you a way to find that second goal. You list what you do and avoid around the stuck goal, ask what those behaviours protect, and write down the belief that makes the protection feel necessary. Then you check that belief with one small, safe experiment on a named day, and read the result honestly, including when it shows the brake was right.

The method comes from coaching practice and is used as a structured way to think. It helps when planning fixes keep failing, and it is no substitute for help with anxiety or depression.

You walk away with a five-column map for one stuck goal, a first test with your prediction written down, and a sequence you can run on the next goal that stalls.

Who it's for

Founders and managers: who say they want to let go of the work and keep taking it back.

Writers and makers: with a draft that never quite gets sent.

Anyone: with a conversation, an ask or a move they have postponed for months.

The lessons

16 lessons, in order.

About 44 min to complete. Add the course and every lesson is yours to publish as it is, or to edit.

  1. Why You Don't Do the Thing You Said You'd Do2 min
  2. Name the Thing You Keep Not Doing2 min
  3. The Honest List2 min
  4. Explain the Brake to a Friend3 min
  5. Find the Brake Behind Your Late-Night Rewrites4 min
  6. What the Brake Is Protecting2 min
  7. Avoidance Buys Relief Now2 min
  8. Run the Worry Box on Six Behaviours9 min
  9. The Assumption You Never Tested1 min
  10. Run the Worry Box on the Henderson Proposal4 min
  11. Run One Small Test of the Fear1 min
  12. One Proposal Goes Out Unedited4 min
  13. When the Brake Is Right1 min
  14. Your Map, and the Next One1 min
  15. Run Your Test and Read the Result2 min
  16. Plan the Tests After the First Proposal4 min

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