{"id":2007,"date":"2017-10-14T18:28:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T18:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elviomendonca.com\/wp\/?p=2007"},"modified":"2017-10-14T18:39:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T18:39:59","slug":"10-harmless-habits-drop-want-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elviomendonca.com\/wp\/10-harmless-habits-drop-want-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Harmless Habits to Drop If You Want to Be Successful"},"content":{"rendered":"

1.\u00a0Saying\u00a0Yes\u00a0<\/em>When You Want to Say\u00a0No<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

If a project<\/a>, partnership <\/a>or opportunity <\/a>doesn\u2019t resonate with you and does not feel aligned with\u00a0your values\u00a0and your goals<\/a>, you need to be comfortable about setting boundaries. Learn how to say no with kindness right from the start because, as you become more successful, more people will compete for your time and attention. Not setting healthy boundaries will end up in overwhelm and burnout.<\/p>\n

2. Hanging Onto People Who Don\u2019t Want to Grow<\/strong><\/h2>\n

For business owners<\/a> especially, the people who got your company to where you are today may not be the ones to get you to where you want to be tomorrow. If they can\u2019t grow with you<\/a>, it\u2019s time to\u00a0replace them with those who can<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3. Working Through Lunch<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Working through lunch is a habit I find a lot of business owners<\/a> take on. Most justify it with, \u201cIf I work through lunch, I\u2019ll just leave a few minutes early\u201d and that isn\u2019t what ends up happening. It\u2019s hard to disconnect midday, especially if you\u2019re\u00a0in a productive spurt, but it\u2019s important to take a few minutes to recharge. Not doing so will lower your productivity and lead to burnout faster.<\/em><\/p>\n

4. Failing to Exercise<\/strong><\/h2>\n

If you fail to exercise, that lack of discipline will translate into other areas of your life, including your business<\/a>.\u00a0When you exercise, you are more alert and sharp, and you will operate at a higher level<\/a>.<\/p>\n

5. Multitasking<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It is technically\u00a0impossible to multitask. When you try to do multiple things at once, you effectively take away full attention and concentration from anything, and you shortchange whatever it is you are doing.<\/p>\n

6. Pinging People<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In a perfect world, everything you do would be\u00a0working toward some goal<\/a>\u00a0(even if it is recharging on the couch). Sending emails that do not advance a relationship because you want to \u201cping\u201d them or \u201ctouch base\u201d is at best useless and could be harmful. There are definite exceptions where being on someone\u2019s mind is valuable, but try to connect it with value creation or a mutual memory.<\/p>\n

7. Striving for Perfection<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

I often let the perfect become\u00a0the enemy of the good. The result<\/a> is that I have a lot of projects<\/a> that are still in the \u201cdevelopment\u201d queue, while I continually refine them. The fact is, however, most defects that I see are not elements that others will see. I am working on letting go of the hesitation to perfect everything that I work on.<\/p>\n

8. Not Protecting Your Recharge Time<\/strong><\/h2>\n

If you\u2019re a workaholic, it can be easy to let your own time get taken over by work, over and over until you\u2019re not taking any time for yourself. This may seem like it\u2019s making you more efficient, but it will start quickly doing the opposite. There\u2019s no faster way to burn out. Don\u2019t fall into the habit of denying yourself the time\u00a0you need to recharge.<\/p>\n

9. Immediately Answering PMs and Emails<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This is by far the largest problem with many people\u00a0achieving success<\/a>, especially on a day-to-day basis. If you answer an email or PM, you should be committed to it, or it\u2019ll quickly take you away from whatever task you are completing at the moment, hindering success<\/a>. Plan periods every hour or two to answer daily emails or PMs.<\/p>\n

10. Not Prioritizing Your Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I recently started using\u00a0The Productivity Planner\u00a0and it\u2019s changed everything for me. It forces you to actually sit down and only pick a few things you\u2019re going to get done, especially the things that often end up getting punted from day to day. Before that, I was letting my calendar and to-do list run my day and never felt like I was getting the important stuff done.<\/p>\n

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Credits: success.com<\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0Saying\u00a0Yes\u00a0When You Want to Say\u00a0No If a project, partnership or opportunity doesn\u2019t resonate with you and does not feel aligned with\u00a0your values\u00a0and your goals, you need to be comfortable about setting boundaries. Learn how to say no with kindness right from the start because, as you become more successful, more people will compete for your … Continue reading “10 Harmless Habits to Drop If You Want to Be Successful”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bos_mb_destination":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15,8],"tags":[65,64,18],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mindset","category-motivation","category-success","tag-10-harmless-habits-to-drop-if-you-want-to-be-successful","tag-habits","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elviomendonca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elviomendonca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elviomendonca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elviomendonca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elviomendonca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.elviomendonca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/www.elviomendonca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elviomendonca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elviomendonca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elviomendonca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elviomendonca.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}