Sometimes when you see that something is working out well for you or about to work out, you feel like you need to either reverse the process or begin to procrastinate until you eventually give up. So in other words, you are cutting off your success when you feel like it’s close by. You are self-sabotaging your success. There may be many reason why we self-sabotage, but the two common ones are: old negative experiences and formed habits at childhood. As we grow, we experience life and inevitably make mistakes. That’s okay and is a natural part of the process of growing up and becoming wiser. However, some mistakes are taken less lightly than others, and end up scarring us for long. An example would be getting your heart broken when falling in love. The result of that experience can be us not being able to properly love again or trust another person, despite them not having done anything wrong. In this case, we are self-sabotaging our relationships because of a past negative experience. In the case of forming a habit, we may have copied it off of someone around us as we grew up. We took their habits, something they often said or done, and made it our own. We then use it to sabotage our own success.
For example, we may have heard our parents say many times that rich people are bad people. As a result, we are not able to earn a lot of money because we think it will make us “bad”. Hence, we sabotage our material wellbeing.