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Squiggly Careers

#283 How to stop self-sabotage

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Careers, Management, Business

4.9838 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Saboteurs are the negative voices in our head that generate stress and get in the way of our ability to handle work and life challenges. They often operate on autopilot and limit our happiness and performance potential. We can all learn to limit the impact of our self-saboteur and this week Helen and Sarah talk about how. They share ideas for action to increase you saboteur self-awareness and the practical things you can do to break the saboteur cycle. Ways to learn (even) more: 1. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of squiggly career tools https://mailchi.mp/squigglycareers/podmail 2. Join the live PodPlus conversation on 16/06/22 at 9am https://www.amazingiflearning.com/courses/podplus 3. Download the PodSheet at https://www.amazingif.com/listen/ 4. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' For questions, feedback or just to say hello, you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah and this is the squiggly careers podcast where each week we talk about a different topic to do with work and share some ideas for action and tools to try out that we hope will help you and it definitely helps us to navigate our squiggly careers with that little bit more confidence, clarity and control.

0:19.4

And we just wanted to start this week by saying a quick

0:21.9

thank you to everyone who takes the time to give us star ratings and write a review for us. We know

0:27.9

it's never going to be top of your to-do list, which we completely understand, but we do really

0:32.3

appreciate you giving us feedback and letting you know what you're learning from the podcast,

0:37.1

what you find useful,

0:38.2

any even better ifs. And one really stood out for me recently that I did want to share,

0:42.9

where someone said, every career needs Squiggly, which I thought was pretty lovely.

0:47.6

Absolutely love these podcasts and the Pod Plus community. And the person goes on to talk a bit

0:52.3

about how they've struggled at work and in quite a

0:54.2

toxic environment and then finishes by saying the podcast has reminded me of who I am my values and

1:00.6

my strengths and I'm now so excited about the future I've recommended you both to so many other people

1:05.8

so nice and I do just want to let people know those kind of reviews and they don't know we what we'll have to be quite as gushing as that one, though I do live it. We read everyone and they do make our week. And when we are recording our 200 and however many episodes doing it every week, it really helps just to keep us motivated to know that we are being useful and being helpful for you in your careers.

1:29.0

So if you do get five minutes to write as a review, we'd be really grateful.

1:32.7

But in the meantime, we just wanted to say thank you to everyone who takes the time already to do that for us.

1:37.2

Look, you've been all warm and fuzzy.

1:39.7

Oh, yeah, I've been a holiday.

1:43.4

Oh, and I've had a gin on it.

1:45.3

So, you know.

1:47.1

I like this holiday, Sarah.

1:48.4

If you want to be part of our warm and fuzzy career community

1:51.6

or just get some tips on how to work and manage your career,

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