Showing posts with label overthinking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label overthinking. Show all posts

Monday, March 9, 2015

Habits That Stop You From Being Successful


Are you aware of what’s getting in your way from fulfilling your potential? What’s stopping you from being a massive success (your definition of success of course)? Many times when we think about success we think about what we need to do… we think of better productivity. Often times we can maximize our potential and our productivity simply by not doing a few things.

Let’s look at some examples of our daily habits that hinder our success.

Social Media Junkie
For most people, if they spent 50% of the time they spent on Facebook (or other social media sites) on their goals, they would be more successful. We all want to keep in contact, we all want to stay connected, we all want to know what’s going on with our friends and family; but a line has to be drawn. If you’re using Facebook to network, great. If you’re using Facebook to connect and build relationships with people who are headed in the same direction as you, great. If you’re using Facebook for multiple hours a day because you’re bored, that’s a problem. If you don’t have a plan and can’t find anything better to do with your time, that’s a problem. Wasting time is a habit we cannot afford to have. Time is the ‘stuff’ of life and if we allow different things to suck up our time, we are killing opportunity.