Self-Sabotage Workbook

Perfectionism

Perfectionism is the tendency to strive for flawlessness and set high-performance standards, accompanied by critical self-evaluations and concerns regarding others' evaluations. It can be both beneficial and detrimental, providing motivation for high achievement but also leading to feelings of self-doubt, anxiety, and depression.

Try Again, Feeling Motivated

Spark returns. Feeling motivated and confident to tackle tasks. Fleets of energy and inspiration

Judgement

All or Nothing

Judge yourself for lack of progress. If progress doesn't feel good enough, you attach it to character and you don't feel good enough

Throw all your energy into the task. If not done well it must not be done at all.

Increase in Urgency You make progress but it doesn't feel like enough. You start feeling discouraged.

Anxiety & Depression You feel stuck and overwhelmed. Nothing you're working on feels like quality. Nothing feels good enough.

Absolute Burnout

Focus on Flaws

You start to focus on everything that isn't going right. You lose satisfaction and momentum slows

Low self-care, task has taken over, pasted your usual boundaries, you may want to push even harder