It's not really sabotage. It's feedback to let you know you're pursuing something that's not really the very highest priority.

We're not broken. We're not unmotivated. We just get trapped in a loop that your neural system thinks is keeping you safe.

Beliefs get formed in the past. Meaning gets formed in the moment. The meaning that you give events comes from your beliefs.

It's silently destroying relationships with self and other and loudly destroying relationships

with self and other. These protective mechanisms were put in place, likely for good reason,

when we were young. They served us to a point and at some point they reduce our freedom and agency in life.

If self-sabotage is a myth and we don't really sabotage ourselves, what is self-sabotage in your own

vernacular?

Each individual lives by a set of priorities, a set of values, things that are most or least

important. Whenever they set goals and objectives that are aligned and congruent with what they

value most, which is their most intrinsic value.

They spontaneously act.

The blood glucose and oxygen goes into the medial prefrontal cortex,

and there's spontaneous action potentials that spontaneously act.

They don't require external motivation there.

But as they progressively go down the list of values to lower and lower priorities,

they require more extrinsic motivation to get them to do things.

So as they go really low, they go, I procrastinate, I hesitate, I keep frustrating,

I'm not doing this because there's no spontaneity.

They have to have an

external carrot in front of them. So if they stick to the very highest priority, they do extraordinary

things. They're very effective and efficient at getting massive things accomplished. But many

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