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512-5-8-0-3-0-5. Once again, 512-580-9305. Today, we're going to be talking about why you

self-sabotage, and then I'm going to teach you exactly

how to stop. Now, I want you to think about this. Have you ever tried to break a bad habit,

and you really want to break that bad habit? You're starting to break it. But just when you think

that you're making progress, bam, it comes back even stronger than it ever has before.

You ever wonder why that is?

Why, when you get so close to breaking it and you're doing so good and you have so much

momentum, you ever wonder why it's so hard and how it just comes back stronger?

Why is it so easy to make change in the short term?

But then you don't just come off the rails at the end. You come off the

rails, you crash, you burn, and then you give up on yourself and you give up on the change that

you are trying to create. That's because there's a psychological phenomenon that's called

the extinction burst, and that's exactly what's going on when you're trying to break a habit.

The extinction burst is like a temper tantrum that your brain's conditioning is throwing.

And so your brain's conditioning creates an intense last ditch effort to get what it wants

before finally giving up and starting to change.

And if you're serious about it, if you're serious about

rewiring your mindset, breaking your toxic cycles, or stepping into a new version of yourself,

then you have to understand exactly what this is, how it works, and then how to get past it.

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