Are you struggling to achieve your goals and attain success? Could it be your personal habits holding you back?
Habits are the small decisions you make and actions you perform everyday. Your life today is essentially the sum of your habits. So let us explore 10 common habits that may be holding you back from success.
Habits holding you back from success
1. Procrastination.
Procrastination is a thief of time. With so many distractions out there, it’s easy to lose track of time and fail to execute your plans. Once you start procrastinating, you get into the habit of it and it may lead you to complacency.
A chronic procrastinator might even find themselves constantly planning and never doing anything about their plans. This habit prevents you from achieving your goals due to inaction and hence never attaining success.
To combat this, you need to make a resolve to get into action everytime you have something that needs to be done.
One thing you might find very helpful is the 5-second rule by Mel Robbins. It is sure to help you stop planning and start doing.
2. Lack of self-care.
Neglecting self-care can have real impacts on your ability to perform. You need to make sure that you are eating healthy, exercising and getting enough sleep.
If you are not taking good care of yourself, you are less likely to be focused and productive and that will result in low motivation and the lack of energy to achieve your goals.
3. Looking down on yourself.
If you are in the habit of putting yourself or even others down, you are likely to find it a struggle to achieve success. Success results from a strong belief in oneself. Putting others down attracts negativity in your life and negativity holds you back from taking positive steps to success.
Therefore, ignore your inner critic. Replace all your negative thoughts with positive ones.
Find the good in those around you and look for ways to be more upbuilding to yourself and to those surrounding you.
4. Staying in your comfort zone.
They say “a comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever really grows there”. Of course stepping outside your comfort zone means taking a leap of faith and risking quite a lot in your life.
It also carries with it a very high possibility of failure. But you will never know what you are truly capable of unless you try.
When you try out new things and take calculated risks, you never know what you might achieve.
5. Not knowing where you are headed.
It is not okay to merely have an idea or dream of what you want your life to be like.
You need to have a clear plan that you can turn into reality. Without a firm plan and a clear vision, you have no way of achieving anything.
Defining your goals is the first step towards success. It helps to create a roadmap that will guide you step by step. Without a plan, you can easily go off course without even realizing it.
6. Self-doubt.
Self-doubt occurs when we lack confidence or feel that we are incapable of achieving the things that we want to pursue.
If you constantly doubt yourself and question whether your goals are attainable, your pessimistic feelings will become self-fulfilling.
Don’t let yourself get stuck in a negative thought cycle. You cannot succeed if you are holding yourself back.
If you believe in yourself, you are much more likely to succeed.
7. Seeking approval of others.
If you care so much of what others think of you, you are probably holding yourself back from success. Your attempts to gain approval from others will only limit what you can do.
It is important to get the opinions of others, but you don’t need constant approval from everyone around you. After all, people change their opinions all the time.
If you are focused on what they approve or don’t approve, you will find yourself lost. You need to be your own person.
8. Perfectionism.
Being a perfectionist is a sure way to set yourself up for failure. No one is perfect.
Constantly striving to be perfect will only delay your goals. You cannot be great at everything.
So, Instead of setting unattainable expectations for yourself, accept that you will sometimes get things wrong and make mistakes. Learn from your mistakes and improve on your skills.
9. Giving up too early.
When it comes to success, consistency and persistence are very key. Even though one has talent, consistency and persistence are what will get you to the finish line. The ability to stick with your projects and working tirelessly to see them through is what will help you to achieve success.
10. Not moving on from failure
The secret to success lies in how fast your rise after falling. Failure in life is inevitable. At some point, each one of us fails at something.
Don’t let failure weigh you down. No one succeeds without failing sometimes. Instead of letting it weigh you down, learn from it. Assess what went wrong. Learn the lessons you need to learn so you can move forward and make better decisions next time.
Conclusion
In order to attain success, you need to get rid of all the habits holding you back. these suggestions will help you identify which areas of your life you need to work on and start achieving your goals and live your best life.
