The world around you is full of people who are doing great things. Indeed, not a day goes by without you reading the stories of people who started from nothing and who have accomplished very great things. Whether they are employees, entrepreneurs or startup creators, these illustrious strangers have been able to force their destiny to achieve success.

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All these stories inspire you and it makes perfect sense. However, despite your good will, you are unable to accomplish great things in your life. Worse still, you even get discouraged and tell yourself that you will never achieve the success you want. It is a mistake to think like that and it may even be that you are finally close to achieving great things.

In most cases, you probably only have to make a few adjustments to finally be able to give your full measure and then achieve success in your life. These few adjustments often involve the removal of the 4 bad habits that I will detail in this article.

You Have Become The King Of Procrastination

I imagine you’ve already heard about procrastination. You know it’s that bad habit of always putting off until tomorrow what you absolutely have to do today. In short, it means never doing what you should do.

This bad habit affects a lot of people. Worse still, it tends to increase over time. Thus, procrastination is a vicious circle from which it is difficult to break once inside. Nevertheless, if you want to accomplish great things in your life and achieving success, you will absolutely have to stop procrastinating.

How to do this? Unfortunately, there is no magic formula. However, I will give you a tip that works in 90% of cases. Before I give it to you, I will explain what happens when you decide to procrastinate. You have a task to perform but you can’t get started because it seems too complex to be done.

To get out of this spiral of procrastination, you will use a simple psychological trick: you will apply the 10-minute rule. So, you will start, whatever happens, this task by leaving you an exit door. Indeed, if after 10 minutes you want to stop, you have the right to do so. This exit door will give you the courage to start the task and you will quickly find that in 95% of cases, time will pass by itself and you will complete the task.

The reason is simple: the hardest thing is always to get started. Once started, no one wants to stop. This 10-minute rule will allow you to say goodbye for good at procrastination.

You Disperse In Too Many Directions

Ambitious people are full of energy and ideas. I imagine you are part of this group of people. So, you always have new and exciting ideas that seem promising and for which you have only one hurry: try to implement them.

In a way, it’s excellent. Nevertheless, these too many ideas will play tricks on you. Indeed, it is quite possible that once the excitement of a new idea is over, you may not be able to finish it properly and you may already have moved on to the new great idea you just had. So you finally don’t produce anything concrete!

You must therefore absolutely avoid dispersing in too many directions. Remember that it is better to take 30 steps in one direction than to take one step in 30 different directions. In relation to your ideas, this metaphor implies that you must absolutely concentrate on a single project in order to put all your energy into it. This will maximize your chances of success in life.

Finally, on the same project, this also applies to the tasks you perform. Indeed, you should always favour single-task work over multi-task work, which is ultimately much less productive.

You Renounce The First Failure

Many people are afraid of failure. That is a fact. This will prevent many people from either starting or showing resilience and continuing to work hard after a failure. To succeed, you must absolutely change your relationship to failure.

You must learn to see failure as a stepping stone to future success. No one succeeds at first, not even the greatest entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley who make you dream so much. From Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos, the great entrepreneurs of our time are constantly trying new things based on the lessons learned from their past failures.

Thus, failure is good if you know how to take the time to analyze its causes in order not to reproduce them in the future. By integrating this basic principle, you will no longer be afraid of failure and, even better, you will never give up on the first failure.

Use failure to try new things by having faith in yourself. It’s the only way to achieve great things in life!

You Lack Concentration

Smartphones and their countless applications, as well as social networks, have clearly changed the game nowadays. As a result, it has become very difficult for everyone to concentrate in a sustainable way. We are always tempted to check the latest notifications on our smartphone or to check our emails. As far as social networks are concerned, it’s even worse since some people spend hours on them.

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Unfortunately, without focusing on your work, you will not be able to achieve great things in your life. I explained to you earlier that it is absolutely necessary to focus on one and the same task in order to be able to achieve it to the maximum of your potential. This applies to social networks and the consultation of your smartphone.

Indeed, it has been proven that when you stop a task and check your smartphone, it will then take you 20 minutes to regain the same level of concentration on what you were doing previously. Can you believe it? You’re wasting valuable time doing this! This time would be much better spent working hard on your current project.

The solution will consist in reserving two dedicated time slots during your working day to check your emails and smartphone. One slot in the late morning and another in the afternoon. Outside these specific moments, you must be focused solely on your work.

Try and you will quickly understand that this bad habit was costing you a lot.

Conclusion

These 4 bad habits that I have presented to you are unfortunately too often found in people who are unable to achieve success and their goals in life. It is one thing to be aware of this, but the important thing is to make the necessary efforts to avoid these bad habits.

Once you remove these bad habits from your daily life, you will quickly move up a gear and accomplish great things in your life.