What is sabotaging your life?
I have recently been learning about Positive Intelligence. You can find out lots of information on the website: https://www.positiveintelligence.com/
The premise is that your mind can be your best friend, but it can also be your worst enemy.
There is a course that you can take and it is definitely worth looking into. We are also go to do our next podcast on the book by Shirzad Chamine….Positive Intelligence: Why only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and How You can Achieve Yours
One of the things I am learning about is my saboteurs.
You can take your own saboteur test at: https://www.positiveintelligence.com/saboteurs/
Here is a little overview to get you started: Saboteurs are mental habits that hold you back.
The Judge is the universal Saboteur that afflicts everyone. It is the one that beats you up repeatedly over mistakes or shortcomings, warns you obsessively about future risks, wakes you up in the middle of the night worrying, gets you fixated on what is wrong with others or your life, etc. Your Judge activates your other Saboteurs, causes much of your stress and unhappiness, reduces your effectiveness, and harms your relationships.
The Judge works with one or more Accomplice Saboteurs to hijack your mind and cause most of your setbacks. Do any of these seem familiar to you?
Avoider – Focusing on the positive and pleasant in an extreme way. Avoiding difficult and unpleasant tasks and conflicts.
Controller – Anxiety-based need to take charge and control situations and people’s actions to one’s own will. High anxiety and impatience when that is not possible.
Hyper-Achiever – Dependent on constant performance and achievement for self-respect and self-validation. Latest achievement quickly discounted, needing more.
Hyper-Rational – Intense and exclusive focus on the rational processing of everything, including relationships. Can be perceived as uncaring, unfeeling, or intellectually arrogant.
Hyper-Vigilant – Continuous intense anxiety about all the dangers and what could go wrong. Vigilance that can never rest.
Pleaser – Indirectly tries to gain acceptance and affection by helping, pleasing, rescuing, or flattering others. Loses sight of own needs and becomes resentful as a result.
Restless – Restless, constantly in search of greater excitement in the next activity or constant busyness. Rarely at peace or content with the current activity.
Stickler – Perfectionism and a need for order and organization taken too far. Anxious trying to make too many things perfect.
Victim – Emotional and temperamental as a way to gain attention and affection. An extreme focus on internal feelings, particularly painful ones. Martyr streak.


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