A difficult childhood, low self-esteem, and cognitive dissonance are all possible reasons for consciously or unconsciously engaging in self-sabotaging behaviors.
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Self-defeating behavior negatively affects your productivity and can be either conscious or unconscious.
Examples of this behavior are chronic worry, chronic lateness, self-criticism, and running on fumes.
Searching for patterns in your life and using the word 'but' to overcome negative self-talk can help.
As entrepreneurs, we have huge goals but often sabotage ourselves in a variety of ways, like self-doubt, not accepting mistakes, and procrastinating. Self-sabotage habits aren't easy to avoid, but they're essential to growing up healthy. At the same time, several of these habits are hard to see in yourself.
