Be Cautious About HABIT FORMATION

 

Be Cautioned about HABIT FORMATION.  WHICH reminds, me, HOW many times we do something out of HABIT?  LIKE drinking coffee.  LIKE biting your fingernails WHEN you're nervous.  LIKE checking your emails a hundred times day and your social messages a thousand times a day.  We end up going through the motions WITHOUT a second thought because it's just WHAT you do.  NOW, HOW many of those HABITS do we think are actually productive???

WHILE we'd like to say all our HABITS make us feel great, it's quite likely we also have some HABITS that are inhibiting our productivity.  YES, HABITS are behaviors we perform on the regular and often subconsciously.  IF we're trying to break a bad HABIT, first things first, step #1 is to identify WHAT IT REALLY IS💚💛💜

Once we pinpoint WHAT it is you're doing that makes you that unproductive, we are advised to actively work NOT to do it.  YES, it requires work [+ Xtra courage].  BUT as I went through that, I managed to get back the extra time back during those days once I successfully cut out those distractions.  Common unproductive habits could be these:

• CHECKING YOUR PHONE - do this LESS FREQUENTLY
• PRIORITIZING SOMEONE ELSE - prioritize YOURSELF
• BEING PERFECTIONIST - instead, COMPLETE FIRST
• DELAYING DECISIONS - face things HEAD-ON ASAP
• WORK AT YOUR LEASE PRODUCTIVE TIMES
• PICK UP THE PHONE TO CLARITY - Reduce messages
• DON'T PRIORITIZE YOUR WORK OVER HEALTH
• AVOID INFO OVERLOAD - you'll get overwhelmed, drowned

Besides these common NOT so ideal HABITS, I observed [even on myself many years back], that sometimes we tend to compare ourselves with others.  I'll tell you WHAT.  That is a very self-defeating HABIT.  HOW much time will you waste wondering WHY your coworker got a promotion over you OR WHY your high school classmate is now a CEO [while you're NOT].  Probably more than admitting, there is NO benefit comparing yourself to others, that's a FACT!!!

Our takeaway:  One last thing.  Sometimes, our own pride lords it over us.  And we end up reinventing the wheels WHEN all we needed to do is ASK FOR HELP.  WHILE I was guilty of that a few times in the past, I reaIized that I should NOT be spinning my wheels if all I needed was to get an insight from someone else.  Asking for help is always an option.  More importantly, it's NOT a tough call to revisit our NOT so helpful HABITS dude😍😍😍