The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

by Brianna Wiest

Usually when we have a problem that is circumstantial, we are facing the reality of life. When we have a problem that is chronic, we are facing the reality of ourselves.

We reach a breaking point when we finally accept that the problem isn’t how the world is; it is how we are.

Your new life is going to cost you your old one.

Self-sabotage is not a way we hurt ourselves; it’s a way we try to protect ourselves.

When we fail out of negligence, we take a step back. When we fail because we are attempting new feats, we take one step closer to what will work.

We grow up with the illusion that success is what’s handed to people who are most deserving, talented, or privileged. When we arrive, however, we realize it is constructed by those who find an intersection of their interests, passions, skills, and a market gap. Sprinkle on a little bit of persistence, and the only way to fail is to give up.