Are You Self-Sabotaging Your Success? A Psychologist Reveals 3 Proven Ways To Stop. How we unconsciously get in our own way.

Here's a real head trip: You may be preventing yourself from achieving your goals— without even realizing it.

Psychologists call this "self-sabotage," and it can appear in all sorts of sneaky ways, like stopping you from getting a promotion or hindering your efforts to take your business to the next level.

"Self-sabotage is when we get in our own way, despite our best intentions," explains Dr. Judy Ho, a clinical and forensic neuropsychologist and author of Stop Self-Sabotage. "And a lot of times, these processes are kind of subconscious to people."