41 bad habits to give up for remarkable success in 2019

Bad habits you need to break in your life? You know them right!

I guess you don’t because you are living every day in the same routine.

In addition, do you know what makes 95% of people successful in the world?

It’s not their attitude, background, zip code, or ethnicity in general that help them succeed.

Everything they own today in their lives is because of the bad habits they give up in their lives.

Firstly, you can make the same progress in your life if you can give up these bad habits from your daily routine.

Secondly, implementing positive habits in your daily life. How to change bad habits?

I am sharing 41 simple bad habits that you need to give up to develop significant progress in your life.

 

1. Bad habits of unhealthy lifestyle  

Start listening to your body first; Nobody is perfect in their routine and diets all the time.

You often embrace bad habits from eating, sleeping, learning, writing and

You need to stop following other people’s routines of eating unhealthy food, smoking, and weekend parties.

The bad habits of keeping ill health will transform into all aspects of your life.

Therefore, you better get more sleep, change to a healthier diet, and never skip your breakfast.

 

2. Keeping a short-term vision

 

You might be thinking about what a short-term Goal?

The short-term goal is something that you are about to do shortly. These goals are right for changing smaller things in your life like attitude, any habit or work as a part of your long-term goals.

Therefore, you need to set long term goals, don’t try to skip the steps of the success ladder for your life.

The best example is Mark Zuckerberg, who doesn’t sell Facebook in the early days because of his long-term vision. Learn to be patient and keep growing your ideas into a bigger tree.

Take the responsibility to achieve your goals and leave bad habits of victim mentality.

 

3. Bad habits of dwelling on Excuses

 

You don’t need a certificate of experience from anyone to do anything.

You better go for working now and build expertise with time. Therefore, stop saying to yourself that I will start tomorrow or the day after. Secondly, you don’t have to be a world-level expert to start doing something new in life.

You need to dump all of your favorite Excuses:-

• I need more experience first.
• Maybe someday I will start when I have that X amount of money in my bank account.
• I don’t have the right connections, time, or skills to work on my dream.

Therefore get ready to give up on the bad habits that advance more doubts in your mind and hinder your progress in life.

 

4. Keeping a fixed mindset

 

What does it mean to have a fixed mindset? Is that similar to the Growth Mindset?

You are having a fixed mindset if you believe your skills, intelligence, and thought process is a fixed trait.

There are no more new skills you can add to your expertise. In addition, you start believing that success is just about talent and luck.

Above all, you felt like you were out of the league and walk towards a mediocre life.

But what you can improve your self-talk, surround yourself with ambitious people, upgrade your skills, and keep pushing towards your goals.

You better spend more time in gaining new skills and less time worrying about qualifications.

 

Repeat to yourself each day- 

•  You are intelligent as you are, and you cannot change anything about it

         (Fixed -Mindset)

• You are better to learn new things but not able to change the level of intelligence

        (Growth – Mindset)

• You cannot always change the information quite a bit

        (Fixed – Mindset)

• You can forever substantially change how intelligent you are

        (Growth Mindset)

The language you speak to your brain starts becoming the reality of your life. 

Therefore, to avoid such bad habits always keep an open mind full of positivity that accelerates creative thinking in your brain.

 

5. Magic bullet (No overnight success)

 

There is no overnight success as in the words of Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn who mentioned it as Valley of death and describes it is something only a few entrepreneurs can scale through it.

• First, embrace the reality of your situation and stop running from it.
• Secondly, stop overreacting as you are still alive. And know that you will grow more in the hardship.

The bottom line is all sorts of projects, inventions, works of art, and individual goals take time and persistent efforts.

If you do not see progress in just a day, week, or month yet you better put more efforts.

 

6. Stop aiming for perfection.

 

In the word of Becky Beaupre Gillespie- Good enough is the new perfect.

Stop being scared to make a mistake and asking for excellence in everything from the start.

You need to stop the feeling of people judging you and take everything as a learning experience rather than counting yourself as someone flawed, imperfect in abilities, and full of flaws.

You are not an operating system as even they need upgrades from time to time. You need a plan to let go of perfection, and you start seeing your life becoming more comfortable and a lot more fun.

Start aiming for excellence and follow the mantra: Ready, fire, and Aim.

 

7. Bad habit of multitasking.

 

What is time management? or is that a skill?

Yes, multitasking is a skill that is beneficial only when you are doing it for a single work. In addition, you are a multitasker if you are watching television while writing your book, eating food, etc.

Let’s don’t debate about it and focus on doing one thing at a time. Moreover, if you want to see progress in real life do one thing at a time? In conclusion, doing a lot of work together damage your brain cells and kill your productivity.

 

 

Also, learn the benefits of time management and apply the Pomodoro technique to avoid extra pressure. This technique will help you in making the best of your time.

You can study this technique to improve life here

This technique will help you in overcoming the bad habits of multi-tasking.

Instead, develop the ability of high focus and dedication at one task at a time.

 

8. Stop controlling everything

 

How do I stop controlling everything? No Big Deal.

You need to stop controlling everything and just let Go. Write down a list of all your fears and start grounding yourself to reality. You offer a lot of energy complaining about them and get out of your life track.

• The weather outside (raining happen just after you washed your car)
• The long line of traffic in the morning (always occur and you are late for office)
• Your past hurts, failed relationships (no more relationship please)
• Happiness and mindset of other people (their life is just perfect)

Stop WASTING your precious time on things you cannot control. You better manage your life, goals, and avoid falling for stuff out of your reach.

 

9. Avoid things that do not support your goals.

 

What are the obstacles to achieving your goals? They are just simple things, not complicated.

Instead, you need to make a change in your daily life: –

• Change your space of living
• Make friends who are ambitious not who drag you at a low level.
• Avoid entertainment and watch stories that inspire or educate your skills to something better.

If you are allocating time in improving yourself will get a better 1%  each day what will become 365% by the end of the year. You will be more progressive and better in terms of health, mindset, and better thinking.

 

10. Stop saying yes to everything

 

First of all, stop saying Yes to everything people want. You need to keep a set boundary from such people and stop being a gentleman all the time.

Start building healthy relationships with positive people.

If you are not comfortable doing anything? Just say No straight away.

If you pretend to be defensive and start making excuses, this will only drain your energy in the long-term.

 

11. Stop being favorite of everyone.

 

Take a second and be true to yourself in answering these things which cross your mind today?

• Do people like what I planned to do?
• Do they like me being speaking the truth at the face?
• Do they like how I look and what I wore today?
• Do I agree with things to avoid conflicts?

As per Roger Cavin in his book, The need to be liked wrote about the human lack of social acceptance from time to time. In other words, people are hardwired to seek approval and avoid rejection at any cost.

In the words of Elliot D. Cohen, suggests that you should keep reminding yourself that your worth is far more than those likes and you do not need the approval of anyone.

You must believe in your self-worth.

 

12. Being addicted to Facebook family.

 

If you are born after the year 2000, you must have an account on Facebook and family-like Instagram, WhatsApp as well.

For Millenials, these addictive bad habits are like a way of learning.

More you are scrolling them more time you are giving for free and having no return in value.

 

You can stop this addiction by some helpful steps: –

• Limit your time or turn off the notifications.
• Spend more time with creative people or develop a new hobby.

Stop giving time to scroll feeds of successful people Instagram and taking no action at all.

Instead, use that time for listening to podcasts, watch interviews, read 5 or 10 pages of a book or an informative blog article.

Who will know any idea from a podcast, text, or meeting that will give you a plan to start a company or design a product?

Most importantly, these bad habits of social media addiction lead you towards a life of mediocrity.

 

13. Not asking for help from a mentor

 

Do you know there are millions of benefits of having a mentor in your life? Meanwhile, you are more concerned about should I need a mentor in my life?

Therefore, stop living in the confusion of I knew it all and better look for people who are doing ten times better than you in your industry.

Benefits of Mentoring at your workplace:-

• You will get exposure to new ideas and creative thinking about real-life problems.
• Helpful in finding your shortcomings and strength.
• You will get better visibility and role in the industry.
• You will get expert advice on growing professional skills.

All the successful people you know had a mentor in their life like Bill Gates has Warren Buffet.

Also, Mark Zuckerberg find Steve Jobs as his mentor in life. By following the footsteps of the mentors, they can generate similar results in less time by avoiding mistakes and focusing on result producing actions.

Learn new lessons from people who are doing it already and make mediocrity unacceptable in your life.

 

14. Awful obsession with watching tv.

 

On average American people spent more than 5 hours watching tv. The content of the tv slow down your thinking process and makes your subconscious mind to believe fake scripts.

The programs often advocate things in the wrong manner through ads to make benefits from the advertising. In addition, they add more doubt in yourself in terms of different doubts.

• You are not good enough in your looks, hair, height or much more
• You need this car, watch or mobile in your life to be happier.

In the meantime, you can read a book or even write some words for your writing.

The habit of reading books will help you in return in many ways: –

• Improve your vocabulary or imagination.
• The lower level of stress and helps with depression.
• Help in better improvement of Focus in daily routine.

Also, you can learn a new language by studying 15 minutes every day.

 

15. The poor habit of fearing failure

 

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” If you are often struggling with fear of failure, you may probably have Atychiphobia?

What is Atychiphobia? And how it relates to fear of failure in your life.

The phobia of Atychiphobia can make your conditions worse from paralyzing to develop physical or emotional symptoms as well. Stop living with your fear of failure and start embracing your emotions.

You must give up on your irrational beliefs about failure and accept the reality that everyone fails in life.

 

16. The inability to commit to anything.

 

What is a commitment? 

Your ability to being dedicated to something in long-term like going to Gym every day for better health.

Why Can’t I stay committed to anything? Because you are a great fan of excuses all the time.

The reasons are simple, but you find it hard to notice them, such as lack of discipline, forming less healthy habits, looking to eat the reward first before doing anything on the ground.

 

 

Before you commit to anything, first ask yourself some questions.

• What is stopping you from starting it? (time or money)
• Do you want the fast result? (in a week or month)
• More attracted to new ideas instead of finalizing the older ones. (you keep adding more information but not acting on it)
• You are in constant doubt of your life vision, direction, and goals. (you are easily distracted from your daily plan)

You need to commit to continuous action every day. If you are less progressive in anything you are doing?

Ask where I am contributing inadequately for my goal. Always form a good habit of tracking your progress and ways to improve it by skipping bad habits from the routine.

 

17. Not taking full responsibility for your life.

 

You are accountable for everything that happened and going to happen in your life later on.

Stop dwelling things on other people Example: –

• Doctors don’t make you healthier (only can provide you tips)
• Teachers don’t make you learn new things(they alone can share the expertise)
• Trainers don’t make you fit(you have to exercise)
• A life coach doesn’t make you wealthy (you need to apply on the knowledge)

You need to accept at some point you have to realize your growth is your responsibility.

The price of greatness is responsibility – Winston Churchill.

 

18. Bad addiction to coffee and shit

 

Do you ever feel like I am wasting my time? Most of the time, you don’t.

Yes, because you do not have a road map for your life. You keep thinking I will do it tomorrow or day after.

“If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.” ― Germany Kent

 

 

Craft a checklist for all required tasks of the day.

Find out how much time you are allocating to each task of the day and find the best use of your precious time.

 

19. Poor habit of seeking people’s approval

 

If you are suffering from approval-seeking behavior from people around you?

You are not growing fast enough. You are not aware of your actions and ignore your self-worth.

To avoid this trap, all you need to do is embrace self-love, ask questions to yourself, and validate your beliefs.

For whose permission you are waiting for to start working on your ideas?

• Friends
• Family
• Spouse or in-laws

Stop asking people around you to do what you have to do in the first place.

In the words of Gary Vaynerchuk, “You have to choose to do it. I am so tired of excuses. Why not try something new?

All you need is to be optimistic, exhibit patience, shut your mouth, and execute.”

What you dream about is solely your responsibility to outperform not your spouse or siblings.

Do what you like because there is only one life you got no replay to do it again.

 

20. Staying too loyal to everyone

 

What does it mean to be too loyal? Let me explain.

It is the habit of staying too loyal to people around you no matter what the circumstances.

1. They are disrespecting you? still, you stick around.
2. Thet are making fun of you? still, you stick around.

You need to stop offering loyalty to people who do not deserve it. Because you are told to be nice with people in life. It is a good way of living but until people respect your presence and voice and value what you are speaking.

Stop being loyal too much to people because not all of them are your friend.

Most people are sticking until they need a favor, and it goes by they pass on. You need to fire all of your negative friends, relationships, and connections that are not adding any value in your vision, growth, or happiness.

 

21. Being reactive, not proactive

 

Being a responsive person, you are more in a mode of worrying about things you cannot control.

Most of the time, you used to believe you are not responsible for what you are saying and doing accordingly. As a reactive person, you are more afraid to make better choices and just crying over your conditions.

I don’t have a better place to live, education, skills, blah, blah, blah.

On the other hand, being proactive means putting your energy on things you can control. Let’s grow up and take responsibility for your life and stop blaming your zip code, parents and your looks for everything.

Example:-

• Using checklists, review results, and plan for better performance in the future.
• You are setting long term goals and deadlines with the right attitude.

Learn to be less reactive and more proactive in your life.

22. You are showing up late.

 

Why am I late? It just simple, you know.

You are not able to set deadlines or follow them accordingly.

Every day you might be searching on Google: –

• How to be on time to work every day? Or you are suffering from delay?
• Tardiness is what? 

What cause tardiness are you sleeping late, not eating better, or giving rest to your body?

According to a CareerBuilder survey, lack of sleep is the second most common cause for delay for employees, with 30% of employees citing it. The most common cause mentioned for tardiness is traffic (50%).

Be the morning guy and stop being a skipper.

 

23. Not practicing mental health tips.

 

What is mental health? It is a sense of how a person feels, thinks, and act on things in their lives.

Do you know there are  301,000 searches about mental health per month on Google?

 

 

If you are feeling a sense of depression, anxiety, or lack of social life, you are dealing with mental health issues.

Eat something positive every morning, focus on improving one habit, and be grateful for performing even one push up, write a list of gratitude and repeat, take a break in between work shifts.

Or buy a coffee for me today?? Just kidding

 

24. Poor management of social life

 

What is social reproduction? It is not about just having an account on Facebook. It is a part of your life.

The social life is the time you spend with other people enjoying, talking, sharing your expertise with people around you.

You need to ask some questions to yourself first to avoid forming bad habits that introduce poor social life.

• How can I improve my social experience?

         (Learn to communicate with other people)

• How can I improve my social circle?

         (Get yourself out, meet new people genuinely)

• Importance of having a better social life?

         (Add more fun, knowledge and improve mental health for better)

The answer to all these questions is enough to manage your social life.

Find a space and write all these questions and see the answer you write for them.

 

25. Learn to make peace with past failure

 

What is failure and example of it and exercises to avoid it?

Write a note to yourself.

• Failure could not decide my future.
• Find something to keep moving forward.
• Each failure would make me better and wiser.

Instead of feeling like a low life you better ask questions to yourself like

• What life lessons I can learn from this?
• What behavior or sort of action I need to avoid it in future
• If you are not giving up? Stop calling yourself a failure.

 

 

Failure is just a part of life, and no one is perfect enough so far to avoid it 100%.  Even Avengers have to find 1.4 million ways to kill Thanos in the end.

You need to keep trying until you get the result you need for your success in life.

 

26. Not investing in Yourself (invest in yourself)

 

Invest in yourself, meaning? It’s not about eating dollars in your breakfast.

It is the art of focusing more on gaining more knowledge and less about worldly things.

How do you invest in yourself? There are specific ways, do it?

Example: –

• Never stop learning by reading books and blogs.
• You are creating multiple incomes streams.
• Find a business coach to help in growing your business.

Let’s start investing in yourself and start seeing life-changing results.

 

27. Stop being emotionally weak.

 

You often think of building your abs strong legs but ignore becoming stronger emotionally.

There are sure signs of an emotionally weak person, such as: –

• You are confused about what you are going to do.
• You are afraid of asking for what you deserve.
• You avoid conversation with people and find it hard to speak upfront.
• You fear to say no and love to be left alone.

Don’t allow negativity to hit you hard and to feel sorry for yourself.

 

28. Not finding yourself worthy

 

Do you know the meaning of self-worth?

It is not about the likes on social media or numbers in your bank account.

In the words of Merriam Webster, “A feeling that you are a good person and must be treated with respect.”

 

 

As you were born, you are full of self-worth as a kid, but as you are growing older and older. Society starts educating you about your appearance, social circle, net worth, etc.

Stop following the trend of society and learn to love yourself in the first place.

• Prove yourself to yourself, not other people.
• Break the habit of pleasing other people and doing what makes other people happier.
• Learn new skills, join a gym, and get healthier.

Just remember that you are different, and you matter in this world. You can become worthy like Captain America by focusing more on your powers.

 

29. Not keeping a Go mentality.

 

Are you a Go-getter person in your life? Let me explain.

As a go-getter, you are ambitious and has an attitude of doing it now rather than skipping it to the next minute. You don’t have to wait for the perfect time for anything to happen in your life.

You feel worthy for a raise?

Go and ask for it. You will stay broke for all your life if you don’t ask for what you deserve.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ask yourself the following questions.

• What I want in the long term and short term?
• How I can achieve that and what resources I need.
• How will I measure my level of success?

Stop waiting for things to come to you in the first place. You must walk out and go for it.

 

30. Keeping it for the last minute.

 

How many tabs are opened in your browser waiting for your time to have a look on them. But you are still struggling to make the time for it.

How do you finish what you start? Or how do you complete a task in the end minute?

Get yourself up and make a plan, start, make your deadlines, and decide to finish it to 100% not less.

Because the habit of not following deadlines make your life more complicated.

 

31. Bad habit of comparison.

 

You need to wake up and break the habit of feeling insecure about watching other people likes on facebook, Instagram their physical appearance or skills. Stop making the comparisons, start counting your blessings, and learn to enjoy your journey.

You better accept where you are and stop running away from it. Go and set a plan and put in the work for where you want to be in your life.

Learn to make a good comparison, not unfavorable that breaks your confidence.

 

32. Sleeping more

 

You need to stop following the rules of other people who advised you to hustle and hustle.

You need to get a sufficient amount of sleep each day.

Getting a fair amount of sleep every night is helpful for your mental and emotional well being. The lack of sleep causes feelings like tiredness, mood swings, lack of concentration, and memory difficulties.

You don’t have to follow the culture of other people because they have teams to outwork their other tasks.

You better find a better time frame when you are more creative to work. It could be early morning hours, during commute in your uber or during lunch breaks.

You know your life better, and you should design the system for making time for everything.

 

33. No time for yourself

 

Do you ever read love yourself quotes? Try to read them.

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.”

But you are used to running every day for deadlines, family priorities, financial securities, and other things.

But in the marathon of that, you ignored the most important person.

Yes, I am talking about you here, and I asked you to make time for yourself.

Learn to meditate, go for a beach walk, write something you are feeling bad or what you need to change about it.

Also, find time to enjoy your own company like going for a mastermind, a long-drive, etc.

You are the Iron man of your family and if you don’t take care of your Energy who else will?

 

34. Not managing your finances.

 

Most of the time, you are running out of money and need to ask for aid from family or friends. Do you ever look for the reasons?

There are specific reasons for that:-

• You are taking debts and not following them up at times.
• You have Netflix, Gym and other memberships which you don’t make time for
• Skipping your bills to the very end of due dates.

What you need to do instead is create a budget, Categories your expenses, fire off the memberships of things you don’t need.

Moreover, the bad habit of not managing your assets is growing more liabilities for your life.

35. You don’t have daily affirmations

 

The daily affirmations are statements of positivity that will boost your self-confidence to a new level.

Why are daily affirmations are essential in your life? Yes, they fill you with the powerhouse of self-confidence in everything you do.

These affirmations help train your subconscious mind to set up the reality you want in your life. There are specific daily affirmations you can make for yourself each day.

Example: –

• I am enough.
• I have the power to create a life I want to build.
• I am the best version of myself.

Make a list of all the things you crave for or you find making you weak and build a habit to speak them in positive dialogues to yourself in the morning.

How can you create positive affirmations for yourself? it is simple just read below: –

1. Stand up in a straight posture and start speaking with words “I am”
2. Start it with the present tense, keep it brief and specific.
3. Speak it with positive words and add an action word like I am exercising for better health.
4. Include at least one engaging emotion or feeling that makes you feel energetic.

In conclusion, by making positive affirmations for your life are very helpful in avoiding bad habits that produce doubts in your mindset.

36. Bad habit of mindless buying

 

Do you ever feel buying more than you need?

You are suffering from a habit of mindless buying. You need to opt minimalist lifestyle and avoid buying things you don’t need. On running with the Mindless Buying, you are: –

• Losing a lot of money.
• I am losing a lot of energy.
• You are increasing your expenses on maintaining things like a new car etc.

All you need is just asking the question to yourself before buying anything like do I need this?

In addition, learn to be patient for a week and decide did you really need that thing or you are just driven by a second emotion.

 

37. Becoming a workaholic

 

Did you remember Jim Carry typing like crazy in the movie Bruce Almighty? If you are a workaholic person in your life, there are specific symptoms you are suffering from in your life.

You have no time for family, fewer communications about your problems, not taking any holiday or ignoring your health.

 

 

How do you cure your habit of being a workaholic?

• Give yourself a break and meditate in sessions.
• Give an end time for everything you started and avoid taking it home with you for dinner.
• Change your mindset and set healthy habits.

You need to focus more on doing it passionately with breaks not persistently for all day long.

 

38. Keeping your mobile everywhere

How does a smartphone affect the brain? Read this now! 

The habit of keeping your smartphone with you is killing your creativity.

This habit is a block in developing your creativity to a better level. Because you are sticking to your smartphone when you are sleeping, keeping on the side of the bed.

And when the alarm kicks your sleeping in the morning. Do you know what happened?

You start checking all your notifications laying in the bed, walking to the washroom. You are not letting your brain to think something outside of the box.

What will happen if you avoid romance with your phone?

• Before sleeping, you can write about your day ( How you are going to perform tomorrow)
• What mistake or best thing you do today and how you avoid or repeat next time.
• Instead, in the shower, you can think of new ideas for anything you are planning to do.

You will get more ideas and relaxation for your mind to win the day.

 

39. Having a bad posture

 

Your bad posture is causing mental and physical stress in your body. This It will lead to more soreness and pain in your body.

As a result, it will lead to draining of your motivation and also sometimes cause symptoms like rounded shoulders, bent knees, body aches, and back pain.

You need to check yourself in the mirror, stretch in the morning, strengthen your core by doing planks or other exercises.

 

40. Not cleaning your shit room

 

Why my room is so messy? Do you think about it? 

You know what this habit of keeping a messy room says a lot about your state of mind and how organized you are in your life.

You need to make healthy choices for yourself because of the environment you keep yourself in affects your creativity.

You will become most creative when you find yourself in a good room. And you don’t have to put more energy in looking for things all the time.

You are living this bad habit if you are always finding urgencies for everything.

Example: –

• Your mac battery is about to die and not to find the charger? A project is overdue now.
• Forget about your car key, and you are running late for work.

More things will add and ruin your time and mood for the day. Therefore, learn to organize your stuff in proper places where you can find them easily.

Let’s get your shit done quick and stop skipping it for later.

 

41. Bad habits of debating on twitter, facebook, etc

 

You get a notification bell on your phone, and you start scrolling the post.

You see someone is speaking their mind, and you feel the expertise to correct them. You deliver the knowledge, and someone will reply and disagree with your idea, and this makes you anxious.

You start debating over and drive yourself to a half-hour of proving who is right or wrong.

It is good to share your knowledge with other people, but it is not a good idea to debate over it with someone you don’t know in real.

 

It will kill your time and energy on something, not adding any value to your life.

Don’t answer all the notifications to be right.

 

Which of these bad habits are you ready to eliminate from your life?

Please share below in comments.