The Judge, Your Master Saboteur

The Judge, or as I call it, The Warden, is the universal Saboteur. Everyone has it.

It’s the voice in your head that criticizes you for mistakes, worries about the future, and focuses on what’s wrong with you, your life, or other people.

The Judge is often the loudest Saboteur. It stirs up your other Saboteurs, increases your stress, and makes you feel less happy and less confident. It also hurts your relationships and limits your ability to perform at your best.

The Judge, Your Master Saboteur

The Accomplice Saboteurs

The Judge works with one or more Accomplice Saboteurs to hijack your mind and cause most setbacks.

Avoider Saboteur

The Avoider focuses on the positive and pleasant in an extreme way, avoiding difficult and unpleasant tasks and conflicts.

Controller Saboteur

The Controller has an anxiety-based need to take charge and control situations and people’s actions. When this is not possible, it causes high anxiety and impatience.

Hyper-Achiever Saboteur

The Hyper-Achiever depends on constant performance and achievement for self-respect and self-validation. It quickly discounts the latest achievement, always needing more.

Hyper-Rational Saboteur

The Hyper-Rational creates an intense and exclusive focus on the rational processing of everything, including relationships. It can cause the perception that you are uncaring, unfeeling, or intellectually arrogant.

Hyper-Vigilant Saboteur

The Hyper-Vigilant creates continuous, intense anxiety about all the dangers around you and what could go wrong, causing vigilance that can never rest.

Pleaser Saboteur

The Pleaser indirectly tries to gain acceptance and affection by helping, pleasing, rescuing, or flattering others. As a result, you lose sight of your own needs and can become resentful.

Restless Saboteur

The Restless spurs constant busyness and a search for greater excitement in the next activity. As a result, you rarely feel at peace or content.

Stickler Saboteur

The Stickler thrives on perfectionism and a need for order and organization taken too far. It causes anxiety trying to make too many things perfect.

Victim Saboteur

The Victim causes you to be emotional and temperamental as a way to gain attention and affection. It creates an extreme focus on internal feelings, particularly painful ones.