What You'll Discover In This Episode:
Have you ever found yourself talking yourself out of important tasks you’ve already decided you want or need to do? Maybe it's delaying that crucial proposal, avoiding a difficult conversation with a team member, or even skipping your own well-intentioned routine. You might say things to yourself like:
I can do it later.
It's not that important.
I don't feel like it.
Those phrases are red flags of self-negotiation - the internal dialogue that creates excuses after you've committed to something. As business owners, we're skilled master negotiators, but this strength becomes a weakness when we turn it against ourselves.
Self-negotiation is an invisible pattern that leads to missed deadlines, broken promises to ourselves, and inconsistency that hinders growth. It involves seemingly reasonable justifications for not following through on our decisions, and it steals momentum, erodes confidence, and creates exhausting cycles of re-decision making. The costs of self-negotiation are significant and they chip away at your business's potential.
In this episode of the Small Business Straight Talk Podcast, I dive into the real costs of self-negotiation and lay out how to stop engaging in this negative pattern of self-sabotaging behavior so you can consistently follow through on what matters most instead.
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