
5 empowering steps to overcome self-sabotage
By Dr Berni Sewell | Discover your happiness
Just over a year ago, I wrote a blog post about the simple reason why you never get what you want. It was based on the premise that the Universe loves us. Every one of us. It wants us to be happy and yearns to provide all that we need to live an abundant and fulfilling life.
This is something I deeply and truly believe in.
But yesterday, I received this message about my article:
“What a load of crap! The universe doesn’t give you what you want, since what you want usually involves other people or something else, and that is what we don’t have control of. Not everybody gets what they want no matter what they do. In my opinion, the Universe is cruel and evil.”
It broke my heart to read this message. Not for my sake (I’ve been immune to criticism for quite a while now). But for hers!
I can empathise with all the anger and frustration that result from a life that feels unfair. From having your dreams and hopes crushed every time you try. From having to resign yourself to the suffering and misery of a life you didn’t want. Where everything seems to go wrong all the time.
But the Universe doesn’t hate you! It didn’t deal you a bad hand out of spite. And it certainly doesn’t trip you up through sheer vindictiveness.
Your negative experiences and unhappy circumstances are not the Universe’s fault. They all just boil down to one word:
Self-sabotage.
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