Common Habits That Destroy Your Success.

Sometimes we can be our own worst enemy. We do things intentionally or subconsciously that impede rather than advance our success. The first step in eliminating these destructive behaviors is acknowledging them. 

• Confusing busy with productive

Let’s face it, you can find enough work activities to keep you busy day, night and weekend. The question is: Are they the right things? I use to fall victim to this but thanks to this wonderful site. I feel redeemed. I use to stay online chatting unnecessarily with friends being busy but not productive. But now I can make a few cents with writing articles. For that I am grateful to the whole @Read.Cash team.

It’s not the hours you put in or the number of items you’re working on simultaneously that make you successful. Focus on the items that have impact. Don't confuse being busy with making process. We measure our success on the busyness scale when in fact we should be evaluating our progress on the activities that will make the biggest impact on our goals. Corporate culture might reward “looking busy,” but true corporate success is the result of focused effort in pursuit of long-term goals.

• Seeking perfection

“If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.”

In an ideal world, the pursuit of perfection would not only be noble, it would be rewarded. In the world we live in, it’s a recipe for frustration and a giant waste of time. 

The closest thing to perfection is the ability to be fully present.

Without any distracting thoughts measuring or grading ourselves, we’re free to really be in the moment. It’s in that moment that we’re truly alive. Yet, the perfectionist isn’t typically present as they’re either busy critiquing the past and replaying their every decision or worrying about their future decisions.” Know when it is time to move on and make realistic goals for outcomes. Seeking perfection will either stop you in your tracks or waste energy that could be more productively applied elsewhere.

• Avoiding risk

You must take calculated risks that will help you learn and grow. Without risk, you stagnate while those around you flourish and advance. Evaluate risks based on their ability to help you reach your goals, then pursue the ones that give you the best opportunity to move forward.

• Letting fear impede progress

A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

Fear can stop you in your tracks. It creates paralysis that causes stagnation. It often ferments in the imagination, where negative images can become larger than reality. If fear is impacting your progress, start with a mindset shift. Rather than letting it keep you from the starting line, let fear become the fuel that helps you take a first important step.

• Fixing weaknesses

When you spend time “improving” weaknesses that aren’t related to your goals, you take time way from things that will drive results. Focusing too much time on you weaknesses is a formula for mediocrity.  If you instead spent that time taking a relevant strength and maximizing it so you can be the best in that skill, it becomes easy for you to stand out and attract the attention of those who are making decisions about you. That’s the most efficient way to put yourself on the path to success. Ditch mediocrity and focus on your superlatives.

Failing to plan is also a plan. It is a plan to fail.

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