Jay Shaw argues self-sabotage is subconscious loyalty to an old baseline, like a thermostat set years ago. When you grow beyond that setting, your mind pulls you back through procrastination and bad timing. Fighting the behavior doesn't work; you have to reset the underlying temperature.
Self-sabotage isn't laziness, it's loyalty. Your subconscious is a freezer. Somebody set the temperature years ago, and its only job is to hold it. So every time you get warmer than the setting— more money, more visibility, more love— it doesn't celebrate, it corrects. You call it procrastination. You call it bad timing. Actually, it's neither. It's a thermostat doing exactly what it was told. So stop fighting the behavior, change the setting. What's one thing that your freezer keeps pulling you back from?
