Since
becoming successful involves doing small and sometimes fairly average things
over and over again until you perfect them, a habit is what’s going to keep you
on track and ensure that you continuously
improve day by day at your selected skills.
Bad habits
can easily kill people’s dreams and desires, because their destructive and not
constructive traits. And making destructive traits a habit won’t get you off
the ground, they’ll make sure you stay firmly on it.
1.
Procrastination
Procrastination
is the first habit to drop
in order save your dreams and desires from getting washed away. It’s normally
the reason that startups never get off the ground, simply because more time is
spent on the less important things to make you feel like your making progress;
however whilst putting off the important tasks to put off the risk of failing.
I don’t know
if you’ve ever watched ‘How I Met
Your Mother’ on T.V, but there’s an episode where Ted starts
his own architecture firm. He fixates on the setup of his office: desk,
computer, ornaments and such, but hasn’t started calling any clients. He later
says that the longer he puts off calling clients, the longer he can say he
owned an architecture firm that wasn’t a complete failure.
2.
Laziness
I don’t know
how people expect to get anywhere by being lazy. Many of us are though . We
weren’t born like that, we didn’t spend our childhoods sleeping in till noon,
doing nothing but watching T.V and eating crap all day long. But as you become
older you get hit by problems, gain more knowledge about, and more responsibility within
the world.
It’s at that
point where you start to develop the habit of sitting back, doing things when
you feel like it and generally becoming the lazy person you might be today.
Being lazy generally means that you won’t be willing to get up early, work hard
and grind to get where you want to be.
You may have
the desire to, but because of this bad habit you have, the discipline and drive
just won’t be there in order to communicate
with your mind and body to get up and do it.
3.
Quitting
They say
that the temptation to quit is greatest right before people succeed. In other
words, when you feel like you have nothing left and you’re ready to throw in
the towel, hold on. Success
might be right around the corner.
If you quit
things very easily and early on with any new hobby or venture you undertake,
then you’ll never get past that point of success with them. It’s not because
you can’t do it, because you can. It’s because you quit before you even had
time to get good at it. The only time quitting makes sense is when you’ve
either realized that it’s definitely not what you want to do.
4.
Excuses
There are
far too many excuses that people will tell themselves daily, that to be honest
are pretty terrible. It reminds me of when you sat back in class at school, and
would hear every possible excuse being used
as to why someone didn’t hand in their coursework on time. And by the time you
got asked, you had to come up with a unique excuse that hadn’t been used
before, just to give you a better chance of being let off.
I’ll be
honest, you can tell yourself every excuse that you want to. Nobody else cares
whether you give yourself excuses or not, and they certainly won’t be benefiting you in any way
apart from making things easier for you in that very short period. Every time
you begin to think of an excuse, think of where you’d be 3 years from now if
you told yourself that one excuse every day.
Would you be
exactly where you are now?
5.
Negative Thinking
A guaranteed
habit that kills people’s dreams and desires, is negative thinking, which the
majority of us will see on pretty much a daily basis, whether it be within
ourselves or from watching others.
Grasp every
opportunity. There will be negative sides to be overcome but just think about the positive outcome.
This is one habit every dreamer needs to kick.
6.
Over-expenditure
Dreams
involve money in pretty much every case. Whether you want to go traveling or start your own business, become
a professional athlete and so on. They all require various amounts of cash in
order to get there. It’s certainly not the main factor, but it’s a pretty
important one, and you probably aren’t helping yourself by buying everything in
site that will go out of fashion within the next year or so.
Your dreams
require spending money, just the same as going out and buying expensive clothes
or electronics, but the difference is that when you put your money in yourself
and what you want for your future, it’s an
investment. It’s definitely not a waste of money. So think
twice before you buy that new car, or that new games console, and invest the
money in yourself.
Investing is
better than spending or saving. The returns from it have the potential to be
far greater.
7.
Social Media
Social Media
kills time, a lot of time. It’s a bad habit, but also a very good one in order
to meet new people and as a business or entrepreneur to promote yourself and make new connections. But for
now, we’re calling it a bad habit simply for the fact that so many people get
distracted by it whilst trying to do some work.
Why do you
think so many companies block you from accessing social media websites whilst
at work?
Simply
because they’re addictive and you’ll end up wasting the companies time. This is
definitely one habit to control in order for you to get your work done and
progress with the things you’re trying to achieve.
8.
Being comfortable
It may sound
a bit strange when you read the title. “Surely being comfortable is a good
thing right?” It’s a good thing because you’re relatively happy where you are,
but it’s a bad thing because you have no idea how long you are going to be
comfortable for, circumstances may change. And in the mean time, you’ve stopped
working hard, stopped pushing yourself
and stopped chasing your dreams.
One day
you’ll stop and realize how much time you’ve wasted being comfortable, for it
all to now come crashing down on you and put you in a position far, far from
it.
I’m not
saying that you should never become comfortable, because that’s a great feeling
to have. I’m just saying that you should go after
what you want and never stop working towards it. Realize when
it’s the right time to become comfortable.
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