8 Ways You’re Unknowingly Sabotaging Your Comeback Season
Soul Gum
by Victoria Hutchins
4.9 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Getting back in the saddle? I love that for you. But here’s the truth: staying on track takes more than motivation. If you’ve been craving a fresh start but don't know where to start, this episode is for you. We’re breaking down 8 of the most common ways people sabotage their own progress—from relying too much on discipline to using self-hate as fuel. Whether you have a big dream or just want to get unstuck, you deserve to enter your next chapter with eyes wide open. Let’s talk about the philosophy and psychology of making a comeback stick.
EPISODE OUTLINE
00:00 Intro
02:40 Eight ways to sabotage a comeback
03:22 1. Believing you're behind
06:19 2. Being apologetic about what you want
07:18 You hold yourself back when you move in silence
08:41 You're being judgmental when you assume people are judging you
10:28 3. Underestimating the subconscious mind
10:45 The neuroscience of manifestation
12:46 Self-deprecation is manifesting too
14:37 4. Focusing only on your how & not your why
14:47 Nietzsche's will to power
15:20 Chasing superficial whys
17:14 5. Underestimating the power of small changes
19:38 Results are a lagging measure of effort (James Clear)
21:30 6. Focusing on what you can't control
21:55 Amor Fati: loving your fate (Nietzsche)
23:22 PS: My book MAKE BELIEVE is out now
24:05 Stop feeling bad for yourself for not figuring it out sooner
25:58 7. Waiting until you're ready to start
26:30 Hiding in the planning phase
26:51 The confidence-competence loop
27:50 8. Using self-hate as fuel
29:56 Lightning round recap
30:56 Give yourself some credit
EPISODE LINKS
Michigan State Study on accountability
Study using fMRI showing impact of visualization on motor cortex
The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
MY LINKS
• MAKE BELIEVE is out everywhere now
• Get a signed copy of MAKE BELIEVE from Blue Willow Bookshop
• Join me in Bali June 1-7!
• Find me @thedailyvictorian on Instagram
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's comeback season. Let's talk about it. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome back to Soulgum, the self-development podcast with philosophical, psychological, and spiritual |
| 0:12.6 | flair. I'm your host, Victoria Hutchins, and today we are talking about comebacks. This episode is not going to be for everyone. If you are |
| 0:25.6 | perfectly content with your life and you don't want to change a single thing about it, |
| 0:29.7 | I love that for you. I'm so happy for you. This episode is probably not for you. If you are in a place where reaching for change doesn't feel like a |
| 0:42.5 | healthy mindset, I get it, that makes sense. I hope you honor that season of contentment. It's |
| 0:49.2 | important. And this episode is probably not for you. But if you're listening to this, because something in you |
| 0:58.3 | is stirring. If you are reaching for change, this episode is for you. Maybe you've been feeling a little |
| 1:06.4 | lost. Maybe you felt unmotivated. You're craving momentum, but you don't know where to start. |
| 1:13.0 | Maybe you have a specific goal. |
| 1:14.6 | You want to finally start the business, or you want to run a marathon, or maybe you have fitness goals, |
| 1:20.9 | or maybe your goals are creative. |
| 1:23.1 | Maybe you want to finally prioritize your art. |
| 1:27.3 | And maybe you're not sure. |
| 1:28.6 | You don't know what you're seeking, but your heart is screaming for change. |
| 1:32.8 | Maybe you set big goals a while back and you've fallen off of them. |
| 1:37.5 | Maybe something in particular threw you off track. |
| 1:40.3 | And maybe not. |
| 1:41.5 | Maybe life has just slowly gotten in the way and you found yourself deprioritizing |
| 1:48.0 | the things that you know make you happy and fulfilled. But if you've clicked this, that means that |
| 1:54.8 | you've made a decision to come back. And that in itself is huge. So before we even dive in, I want you to take a moment right now and give yourself some credit for that. Okay? Are you taking that moment? Okay, good. Because here comes the hard part. Even just by clicking this episode, you are setting a beautiful intention. That's a big step and you deserve to feel proud of that. |
| 2:19.4 | But it's just the first step. Good intentions won't get you where you want to go. |
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