10 Sure Ways to Sabotage Your Success
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When it comes to BIGG success, the good news is you only have to get it right once.
But there are some obvious ways to sabotage your success – both before and after – you’ve achieved it.
We’ll share ten of them today:
1) Sabotage your success by expending energy needlessly
Your energy is precious. You need all you can muster for your BIGG important things.
We call those BITs. BITs are tasks and projects which lead to your ultimate goal. Everything else is a needless expenditure of energy.
2) Take unnecessary risk and you’re sure to sabotage your success
The most successful entrepreneurs are not risk lovers. They are incredible risk managers.
Don’t take any risk you don’t absolutely have to. Find a way to mitigate it or eliminate it altogether. Then you can move forward with no fear of loss.
3) You sabotage your success when you allow yourself to get distracted
Time management is great. But even more important today is attention management. Find your focus and stay focused on it.
4) Don’t stay disciplined and you’ll sabotage your success
How well you do at work has a lot to do with what you do or don’t do after work. Temptations will always be there. They’re fun.
But you have to keep your end goal in mind. The price of BIGG success may be to say “no” to things you would love to say “yes” to.
5) You’ll sabotage your success if you worry about yesterday or tomorrow, but not today
Don’t waste a single second on what you wished you had done yesterday. And ditto for tomorrow.
Focus exclusively on today – it’s a fleeting opportunity to make a BIGG impact.
6) Live on past success and you’ll sabotage your success
Winners become losers because they focus on the last win rather than the next one.
When you win, celebrate for a time. Then focus exclusively on what you need to do to move forward again.
7) You’ll sabotage your success if your confidence turns to cockiness
The difference between the two is a fine line. Success breeds confidence.
It should walk hand-in-hand with humility and gratefulness. Then you’ll have the proper mindset to get to the next level of success.
8) Forget what you don’t know and you’ll sabotage your success
This is closely related to the last point but deserves explicit recognition. It’s easy to get caught up in your success. It’s easy to think you know more than you do.
Keep the proper perspective or you’ll take unnecessary risks. See Point 2.
9) You’ll sabotage your success if you stop being hungry
The best state of mind is happy, but not content. Stay hungry.
No matter how much success you achieve, put yourself to the edge so you continue learning.
10) Manage money improperly to sabotage your success
This works two ways – hoard it and you’ll miss out on a whole lot of happiness OR spend it frivolously and risk losing what you worked so hard to build up.
As your wealth grows, invest in professional advisors who can help you make the most of it.
How have you seen people sabotage their success?
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