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And the common list of habits that can be useful

 In this paper, this is our best to avoid the 7 habits.

as the habit of looking as good for you to find your way habits are equally important. Most of these 7 habits have

can easily become a part of your daily life, that you hardly notice it (or how it affects you.) I have tried these little habits,

result is no doubt that those few important things can be done. I'd also like to add that this is only in life you may

the efficiency of the formation of the 7 major habit, I'm sure there are more than just that.

1, absent.

Maybe you've heard this quote by Woody Allen:

more at - it is in life you can do to ensure more successful the largest and one of the simplest things, whether it is in your

social life, your career or your health. If you want to improve your health, one of the most important and most effective

thing is that every time you show up at the gym.

weather might be bad, you probably do not want to go out, maybe you have a lot of other things to do. But if even if you are not enthusiastic in

still continue to appear high in the gym, then you stay at home than relaxing on the sofa much more effective.

I think this also applies to most areas of life. If you write or paint every day, you will improve quickly.

If you get out more you can meet more new friends. If you go on more dates, your chances of meeting someone

will be greatly improved. Just showing up more can really make a big difference. Not showing up will get you anywhere.

2, procrastination.

To simplify, I will be 3 favorite ways to get out procrastinating ways listed below:

- swallowed a frog. That is the beginning of the day to complete the most difficult of the most important work. A good start in the morning will make your day

have maintained high spirits and positive energy. This often creates a pretty productive day.

- How do you eat an elephant? Do not try to bite into the fat, which makes you feel so too have the burden of procrastination.

to a task into small steps into action, and then focus only on the first step until it finished, the next and then continue to the next step

.

- convince yourself. I find this guided mediation to be very effective. Just spent 20 minutes lying on my bed and meditate for a few days I have

very efficient, I do not feel the drag of the situation into a 1-5 or browse my favorite Web site to find updated information necessary.

3, things do not matter.

besides procrastinating, you are most likely to fall into bad habits is busy with unimportant tasks.

To be effective you probably need some kind of time management. It may be a very simple matter, such as the start of the day

use the 80/20 rule. The 80/20 rule, that is, we usually are familiar with the Pareto Principle that 80% of the results from only 20% of the effort. The high demand

that you should focus your energy on those few most important things.

When using this rule in order of priority when you only need to write down the day you need to do three of the most important thing, and then start from scratch. Even if you can only complete one

one thing, you have still done the most important thing today. You may perhaps prefer others, such as GTD. But no matter how you

organization, the most important thing is to find the most important work, so you do not spend days, weeks or even several

months doing busywork that is not very important thing. If these things does not matter, even if you quickly complete their

is of little use.

4, unfounded.

because more seldom taking action. Paralysis by analysis can make you waste time. Thinking before action is nothing wrong with

. Do some research, make a plan to explore the possible positive and negative factors.

But compulsively thinking is just another way to waste your time. No need to try before you go to a corner from each degree

examine everything. And you can not wait for the perfect time to do something, because such a time never comes.

If you keep thinking you'll just dig yourself down deeper and deeper, so that actions become more and more difficult. In contrast, although the thinking in a certain extent

help you, but you now need to do is to just stop thinking, and then do what you should do.

5, everything is too negative.

when you consider everything from the negative side, your enthusiasm will be greatly affected. Everywhere you will find the problems and errors, which

these problems is the non-existent. You cling to details. If you want to find a reason to not do something, which of course no problem.

When you look at the issue from a negative point of view, the time you can find ten excuses.

so you almost nothing. You are willing to listen to anyone who complained (perhaps a lot of people do not want to hear), complaining about your job, life and leadership

how crappy. Your life depends on how you view the world, it has become a self fulfilling prophecy.

A solution is to understand the limits of the negative aspects, to recognize your negative thinking is not a true picture of the world.

Then try other perspectives. For example, you can try and get a more positive and optimistic about everything from the perspective of the

habits, which can be quite useful. In this way, you may want to try this positive challenge. This is not easy, but

If you accept this challenge,bailey UGG boots, for 7 days only think positive thoughts, you will suddenly realize that your angle of approach and ideas are so

a profound impact on your understanding of the world and you get results.

6, stubborn and isolated.

hard to admit that their ideas are not the best choice, so you cling to your ideas, get be out of touch with reality. This will let you

difficult to make progress, for example, will be difficult to improve efficiency. In this case, even seriously consider the possibility of change in life can change in

too difficult.

Obviously, one solution is to open up. Broadening their horizons, from others and learn from their mistakes,UGG boots clearance, from other sources like books

access to knowledge. As with anything, this is easier said than done. As previously mentioned, this proposal is to realize that my knowledge of your field of

knowledge was limited, and you do things the way there will be insufficient. Then just try something new.

and my other piece of advice is to read 埃克哈特托 Lee's As recommended by the Tory

, if you do not like thinking Ego, you will more easily accept new ideas and discard old ideas that have been useless. In addition

I'd like to add is: Do not superstitious books, and do not blindly pursue new information, or you might become a self-help obsessed

help people. In the operation and use of the new information, what you have learned and try it.

7, continuous information overload.

information overload is not to say you read too much,UGG boots, I mean all input surplus. If you let all of the information flow into large

brain, it will be hard to think clearly, because too much stimulation. This habit may be drawbacks:

- some of the information you receive may be negative. Media and the surrounding environment will provide a variety of reasons for negative information. If

If you do not have the information needed to choose, maybe you will fall into negativity, which affects how you think, feel and act.

- it will make you rush to catch up with what happened today, however, always ten more things happening so you can catch up with them a few

is almost impossible . Therefore, your life would be full of pressure.

- information if you continue to be bombed, and also tried all the information classification, you will be hard to make decisions and take action.

To me personally, if I get too much information, will result in a sort of paralysis, nothing. Or you will be trapped in habit

, eager busy day in some non-essential things.

order to be able to focus, think more clearly and put into action, you need to be more selective in absorbing information. When you work as

to avoid those distractions. Shut off the phone network, shut the door. You'll find incredible, when you do not have every

interrupted once every five minutes, have the opportunity to browse RSS-feeds or favorite websites to procrastinate so many things can be done

.

now I'm not suggesting you should stop reading all the blog or newspaper. But think about what you really want to read,

which is only used to pass the time. At the same time you can view other areas of the open nature of the information.

example, you do not have to let in all the negative emotions from your surroundings. If everyone is busy or impatient at the delay

in various non-important things, you will easily be influenced by that mood. If you have a door, shut it and focus on more important things

, it would be a good idea.

7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People

By Henrik Edberg

With a twist to the common list of habits that are useful to establish, here are 7 habits that you do best to avoid. Just like finding habits that can be useful for you it's important to find habits that are holding you back. Most of these 7 habits can easily become such a normal, everyday part of life that you hardly notice it (or how it's affecting you). I've dabbled with all of them quite a bit. Not surprisingly I didn't get much of the important stuff done. I? d also like to add that these are just 7 broad habits you can establish to become highly ineffective in most parts of your life. I pretty sure there are several more. 1. Not showing up. Maybe you've heard this quote by Woody Allen: do to ensure more success in your life whether it be in your social life,UGGs, your career or with your health is simply to show up more. If you want to improve your health then one of the most important and effective things you can do is just to show up at the gym every time you should be there. The weather might be bad, you might not feel like going and you find yourself having all these other things you just must do. If you still go, if you show up at the gym when motivation is low you will improve a whole lot faster than if you just stayed at home relaxing on the sofa. I think this applies to most areas of life. If you write or paint more, each day perhaps, you will improve quickly. If you get out more you can meet more new friends. If you go on more dates you chances of meeting someone special increases. Just showing up more can really make a big difference. Not showing up will not get you anywhere. 2. Procrastinating half the day. To keep it short, my 3 favourite ways to get out of a procrastinating state are: - Swallow that frog. What? s this means is simply to do the hardest and most important task of the day first thing in the morning. A good start in the morning lifts your spirits and creates a positive momentum for the rest of the day. That often creates a pretty productive day. - How do you eat an elephant? Don? t try to take it all in one big bite. It becomes overwhelming which leads to procrastination. Split a task into small actionable steps. Then just focus on the first step and nothing else. Just do that one until it's done. Then move on to the next step. - The Get around to It Paraliminal. I find this guided mediation to be very useful. After 20 minutes of mostly just lying on my bed and listening I'm far more productive for a few days. I don? t feel the urge to sink into that procrastinating state or the need to find out what's new over at one or five of my favourite websites. 3. When actually doing something, doing something that isn't the most important thing right now. One of the easiest habits to get stuck in, besides procrastinating, is to keep yourself busy with unimportant tasks. To be effective you probably need some kind of time management-system. It might be something really simple, like using the 80/20-rule at the beginning of each day. The 80/20 rule , or the Pareto Principle as it? s also known, says that you? ll get 80 percent of your results from only 20 percent of your tasks and activities. So you need to focus most of your energy on those few important tasks to be effective . When you have prioritized using this rule just write down the top 3 most important things you need to do that day. Then, from the top, start doing them. Even if you just get one of the things done, you have still done the most important thing you could do today. You may perhaps prefer some other system, such as GTD. But however you organise your work it's still of highest priority to find the most important tasks so you don't spend days, weeks or months doing busywork that isn't that essential anyway. Just getting things done faster isn't that useful if the things you get done are unimportant to you. 4. Thinking too much. And thereby seldom taking action. Paralysis by analysis can waste years of your life . There is nothing wrong with thinking before you do something. Do some research, make a plan, explore potential upsides and problems. But compulsively thinking and thinking and thinking is just another way to waste your time. You don't have to examine everything from every angle before you try it. And you can't wait for the perfect time to do something. That time never comes. And if you keep thinking you'll just dig yourself down deeper and deeper and taking action will become more and more difficult. Instead you just need to stop thinking. Shut of your mind it just helps you up to a point and go do whatever you need to do. 5. Seeing the negative and downsides in just about anything. When you see everything from a negative perspective you quickly punch a hole in your own motivation. You find faults everywhere and problems where there are really none. You cling to details. If you want to find a reason to not do something then that's no problem. From a negative viewpoint you can find ten reasons every time. And so very little gets done, you whine to anyone who wants to hear and many who don't about how crappy your job, life and boss is. Which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as you create the life that is appropriate considering how think and see your world. A solution is to realise the limits of a negative perspective. And that your perspective isn't some kind of 100% true picture of the world. Then try other perspectives. For instance, trying to establish a habit of seeing things in a more positive and optimistic light can be quite useful. In that vein, you may want to try the Positivity Challenge. It? s not easy, but if you do the challenge and try to only think positive thoughts for 7 days it can give you an insight in how much your perspective and beliefs changes how you interpret your world. And what results you get. 6. Clinging to your own thoughts and being closed to outside influences. It can be hard to admit that what you thought or believed was not the best alternative. So you cling to your thoughts harder and harder and keep your mind closed. This makes it hard to improve and for instance to become more effective. Even really considering the possibility that you can change your life can be difficult in this position. One solution, obviously, is to open up more. To open up and learn from the mistakes of others, from your own mistakes and from other sources like books. This is easy to say though. It can, as almost anything, be harder to do. One suggestion I have is to, like I said about the previous habit, realise the limits of what you know and the way you going about things. And then just try something new. Another tip is to read A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle and especially look at the chapters about the Ego. If you stop identifying so much with your thoughts and your Ego, as Tolle prescribes, it becomes a whole a lot easier to let new ideas and thoughts come into your life. And to let go of old thoughts that aren't useful to you anymore. On the other hand I 'd like to add and counter-balance with these tips: don't get stuck in reading, in just taking in new information either or you might become a self-help junkie. Use the new information, put what you have learned in to action and try it out. 7. Constantly on information overload. With information overload I don't just mean that you read a lot. I pretty much mean an overload in all input. If you just let all information flow into your mind it will be hard to think clearly. It's just too much stimulation. A few more potential downsides to this habit are : - Some of the input you receive will be negative. The media and your surroundings often put a negative spin on things for various reasons. If you aren? t selective in what input you want in your life then you'll be dragged into this negativity too. This affects how you think, feel and act. - It creates an urge to keep up with what's happening but there are always ten more things happening so you can't keep up. This makes life stressful. - It becomes hard to make decisions and take action if your mind is constantly bombarded with information or trying to sort through it all. Personally I find that if I get too much information it leads to a sort of paralysis. Not much get? s done. Or you get stuck in habit # 3 and keep busy, busy, busy at high speed with low priority activities. To be able to focus, think more clearly and take action it? s useful to be more selective in what you let into your mind. When you work shut out as much distractions as possible. Shut off the phone, internet and shut the door. It is strange how much you can get done when you aren? t interrupted every fifth minute or have the opportunity to procrastinate by checking your RSS-feeds or favourite websites. Now I? m not suggesting that you should stop reading all blogs or newspapers. But think about what you really want to read and what you read just read to fill your time. And have a look at other areas of input where the doors are wide-open. For instance, you don? t have to let in all the negative emotions from your surroundings. If everyone else are procrastinating or are anxiously keeping themselves busy by doing low-priority tasks at warp speed it? s easy to be influenced by that mood. If you have a door, then it might be good idea to shut it and focus on doing more important things. 

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