Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.

I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey

and inspire you to create your own.

Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,

from my personal experiences to useful tools and different

mindful techniques.

Hello and welcome to episode 85 of the Mindful Kyan podcast and episode five of the goal setting mini-series.

In the past, when I've run similar mini-series, they've lasted four or five episodes,

but I was thinking about it and I decided to do an extra goal-setting episode because I still

have a few things to say on the topic. Also, I've received so much lovely feedback about this mini-series

and how helpful it's been for people in setting meaningful goals. And I really want to make sure

I've covered as much useful information as I can. So this episode is all about overcoming the

obstacles between us and achieving our goals. My intention for this episode is that it

helps you to grow your awareness of what might be holding you back and to show you a few helpful

tips in moving forward. Let's just dive straight into it. Obstacle one is self-sabotage. I think this is

an obstacle which is difficult to acknowledge because often the power of self-sabotage. I think this is an obstacle which is difficult to acknowledge because often

the power of self-sabotage is that we don't even realize we're doing it. We're motivated and

influenced by thoughts or beliefs we might not even know are having an impact on us and our goals.

And before we know it, we've given up on our goals without even understanding why. For example,

imagine your goal is to leave your job, study again and create a business doing something you love

and enjoy, such as photography. Self-sabotage could potentially show up in a range of different ways.

Maybe deep down you don't believe you deserve to have a job you really

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