Do you ever feel like you want to stop doing things that undermine your success, but you do it anyway? Then you beat yourself up, adding insult to injury. No, you are not crazy. You are not weak, or dumb. YOU are not self-sabotaging, or purposefully undermining your success. In fact, YOU aren't even involved. Your survival is running the show--not you.

The brain cannot tell the difference between a real or imagined threat. Being alive, going through your day to day living is inherently threatening. Real or imagined, your survival is designed to keep you safe--like when your foot automatically hits the break when you sense a car is about to cut in front of you on the road . The threat of death—physical, emotional, financial or social—will go to great lengths to keep your identity alive. Even if it means killing your dreams.