7 Habits That NOT Highly Effective
You may already have read the book by Stephen R. Covey, entitled 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, which is also one of the international best sellers. If you've never read it, I highly recommend the book to you. Textbooks you need to have if you want to develop your personality. You can get them at stores your favorite book.On this occasion, I would have told you shared his habits of people from the opposite standpoint, namely 7 Habits That NOT Highly Effective.
The seven habits you should avoid. Maybe you do not realize it because it has become your daily habit.
What are the 7 habits, let's see together:
1. Do not 'appeared'
One of the most simple but has a profound effect on you in achieving success - whether in social life, career, finances or health - is putting out yourself more often.
What does 'appeared' mean here? I'll give you an illustration: If you want to improve your health, then one of the most important and most effective things is that you appeared at the gym according to your training schedule.
Maybe then the weather wasn't in favor so that you feel unwilling to get out of the house. But if you keep forcing ourselves to go even if you are lazy, then you have to improve your mental lot faster than you just sit on the couch and watching TV.
I think this applies in all areas of your life. If you write more often, then one day you will become a top author where the results of your writing will always be waiting for other people to read. If you often meet or get together with friends, then your chances of meeting someone special increases.
Only with you 'appeared' more often will make a huge difference to your success. If not, you will not go anywhere.
2. Delaying the work
There are two conditions that cause a person to delay his work:
- First, he has a accumulates job. He wondered what he should do first. Finally, he did not do anything.
- Secondly, he only had a little bit of work, so he thought to put it off first.
Regardless of your condition, below are a few ways you can do so you can get out of the habit of delaying this:
- Do the hardest task first and foremost in the morning. A good start in the morning will make a positive momentum so that you will live the rest of your days with more spirit.
- You have probably heard a joke: how to eat an elephant? ... .. Do not eat it in one bite! If you just think the task that piled up awaits you, your head can become fatigued, will eventually bring you to a delay. Break down your tasks into small steps, and focus on the first step. Once completed, you can move on to the next small step. (I never review also in the article How to Stay Motivated To Solve What Have You Started)
- If you are thinking to suspend work because you only have a little bit of work, you should begin to think what if suddenly you get a new job while a long task yet you do. Always use the principle: 'do right now the things you can do right now'.
3. You do something that is not important
Another habit that is not productive, in addition to the delay, is your concern themselves with things that are not important.
To avoid this, write three important things you should do every day, whether on paper or in your notebook and start working from the top. Although you are only able to complete one job, but at least you've done the most important thing you need to do on that day.
Whichever method you use to organize your work, the top priority remains to find the most important things you need to do every day. This technique is also part of effective time management, so you do not spend your days doing things that are not important. Complete a job quickly fixed that matters if you do things that are not important.
I'll try to give you a simple example. Suppose you are a manager of a production department. Once your subordinates make mistakes so that the resulting product is defective. Which one will you choose :
1. You with your subordinates repair the defective product; or
2. You are looking for a solution so that the incident does not recur.
I think you've captured what I mean about things that are important and not important.
4. Thinking too long
People who think for too long will automatically make it less to take action. Stuck in excessive analysis can throw the precious moments in your life. There's nothing wrong with thinking before taking action, even needed such a thing. Conduct research, make a plan, explore potential benefits and problems that may occur.
But think, think and continue to think is another way wasted your life. You do not need to analyze all the things from every angle. You could not wait for the time that really appropriate to conduct your action. Believe that time will not come. You also do not need to worry about what if you went to failure. If you still think and continue to think deeper, then you will be more difficult to take action.
Stop thinking, now do whatever you need to do, go wherever you need to go.
5. Seeing the negative side of everything
When you see things from a negative angle, then the fact you've dropped your own motivation. You find flaws everywhere and problems that may not actually exist, for example, when you are looking for reasons not to do something. I believe from a negative angle you will find at least 10 reasons.
Another example, you look for someone who will listen to your complaints - when in fact no one wants to listen to your complaints - about the job and your life is saturating or your boss sucks. Know that you will create your life according to what you think and how you look at your environment. If you look at your life so drab, you will have a life really be boring.
All you do is none other than to challenge yourself to think positively for 7 days. Look at the remarkable results that you will be able to.
6. Stubborn to your guns themselves and reject the opinions of others
It is difficult to admit or high-minded that your opinion is not the best option. So you insist on your opinion and shut your mind from the influence of others. This condition can cause you hard to develop into a more effective private.
Suggestions for overcoming this problem is that you realize that humans have a limit on the things he knew. You must be open to receive lessons on your own mistakes, mistakes of others or other sources such as books.
When your brain is always cleared to accept new things, unconsciously you have risen to a higher level, and so on. But remember, do not also get stuck as described in no.4. The new knowledge that you received, you should apply and try out in your life, do not just be a mere knowledge alone.
7. Allowing the information flooding your brain
The opposite of point 6 above, at 7 this point you just let all information flow to your brain without filtering. If you do this, it will be difficult for you to think clearly. Some conditions that cause you like it is:
- Much of the information that you receive is negative. Media and the environment around you often give negative information, such as fraud, robbery, murder, gossip and so on. If you are not selective in the news, you can be negatively affected as well, whether it be in our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
- There is an urge within you to keep up to date information, but how quickly you keep abreast with the various tools you have, there will always be dozens or even hundreds of new things that happen that you can not follow. Hali it can make you stressful.
It's hard to make decisions and take action if your brain is continuously inundated with information. Even you can be stuck to the habit, as mentioned in point 3. You're busy and keep busy doing the work but not really a job that is not important.
To be able to focus, think clearly and take action, it is necessary to select qualified even if the need to restrict access to information coming into your brain, for example when you're finishing a job, you do things like turn off your phone, the internet and room doors you. You will see amazing results when you are not interrupted every 10 minutes by email or your favorite websites.
