As coaches, we work a lot with our saboteurs in coaching. A saboteur can be thought of a group of thoughts processes and feelings that maintains the status quo (keeping things the way they currently are) in our lives. I'm sure you have heard a voice saying, for example "I shouldn't ask for what I want because I'm not good at or it will jeopardize my job."
Often, it wants to protect us, but in fact it keeps us moving forward and getting us what we truly want. The saboteur is neither good nor bad, it just is. The saboteur loses its voice and power over us when we can identify what it is and consciously choose what we want to do with it.
Identify one of your saboteurs today. Give it a name. What does it look like? How much voice does it have? Acknowledge it's presence and then send it on a vacation. Tell it "I know you have been working hard all week and could use a vacation, I'm sending you on a hike for the rest of the day." Ask yourself, how is this saboteur honoring your BEST self?
I have a saboteur called public speaking. It tells me "if you get up to present to the team, you will fail." It use to have a tight grip on me, but after recognizing, naming and visualizing it, I am able to choose what I want to do with it. Nowadays, the voice isn't very loud.
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