Can I just say, my clients, are amazing?! They have done some pretty spectacular things. All of them. 

Not just a few.  

Every. Single. One.  

But "watching" my clients' self-sabotage, at times, is so PAINFUL for me. I just want to shake them awake. I wish I could just infuse them with the confidence I have for them.

I know they have to experience their own journey. I get that. 

I understand I can't make decisions for them. But it's excruciating. It's like nails on a chalkboard. I know I can't control their actions (which really is a good thing; I get this), so now I use their lessons to help teach others.

It is a beautiful thing about how God can use anything to his glory!

So, let me cut to the chase here. I can tell when self-sabotage is coming for my clients. I want to share what I know with you. This way, you can be on the watch for your own self-sabotage and hopefully not fall into this trap the enemy is so good at catching...

Can we celebrate for a minute?

THIS IS MY 53^rd BLOG POST!

That means I have writing to you all for over a year now!

WHAT?!

Three years ago, you never would have got me to believe that I would write that many posts!  Even a year ago, I would have told you,

“Yeah, right.  No way will I do that posts many in a row.  I hate writing.”

I would have said that because I knew I was really good at sabotaging myself.  Actually, I still am good at it.  When I don’t see the results right away, when things get kind of hard, when I don’t believe I’m good at it, when I don’t quite reach my goals…

I quit.

Then, I think something is wrong with me.  That I’m the only one that can’t follow through.  That I'm not good at anything.  That it must just be easier for those “other” people.

But those are all lies.

We all struggle. 

And we ALL sabotage ourselves. ...

I stood in the kitchen staring….

…staring at that container full of cookies. 

They are my favorite.  Chocolate and peanut butter.  I already had one.  It wasn’t on my plan for the day.  I go for the container and open it.  I shove that second cookie down so fast so nobody will know.  Nobody will see that I lack the self-control... that self-control I help my clients build daily.

But it doesn’t stop at that one cookie.  I think about the chocolates in the pantry.  You know, those Lindt truffle ones.  My brain is going crazy.  “Just have that too.  You already have screwed up your plan. Keep going.  You’ll get back on the wagon tomorrow.”

That’s when I realize….

I’m sliding down into the pit of self-sabotage.

I’ve been on this journey before.  I can see the gaping black hole I'm about to free fall into.  It is so tempting to...