These strategies to overcome your self sabotage are only recommended for the healthy. If you're ill, have psychological issues, or you aren't well in any manner, please go and see a health professional! Do you like
being right? The more you're open-minded, the less stressful you'll find improving your effectiveness to be.
The founders of psychotherapy are Jung and Freud a couple of hundred years ago. It mostly seems to emphasize fixing the past so you move on. Although troubled individuals find success, it often last for a significant period of time. And every passing moment creates more past to be analyzed...
Although some practitioners seem to believe their therapy services are the only way forward, the dramatic growth in competing avenues contradicts such close-mindedness. Results do speak volumes, so look at how fulfilled and relaxed they usually are, and you will see the effectiveness of any service.
Since therapy's focus is the past rather than the future, some psycho-therapists and psychologists are getting trained in more modern-day disciplines such as coaching, etc. Yet coaching focuses on answering the question
what should you do?
Now action is totally necessary, but action without improving your context won't change your results much. Although a number of approaches can make improvements in your life, most only produce short-term effects. Why? because they fail to address the cause of the problem -
your context.