Feeling Stuck? These Habits Are Holding You Back From Success

Let’s face it, we all aspire to be successful and do great things in life. Our everyday actions can either support us in reaching our goals or block us from moving forward. We each have an infinite amount of potential, but our results don’t always reflect it. Sometimes, in order to reach your full potential, you don’t need to change who you are, but what you’re doing.

Habits are more powerful than we may think. These everyday subconscious behaviors shape who we are as a person and what we achieve. Once we identify the “bad” habits that are holding us back, we can break free of them, and our potential then becomes limitless, making our goals not so elusive after all.

Waiting for the right moment

The so-called “perfect moment” is nothing but an illusion. There isn't and never will be a right moment because the right moment is now! Waiting for that perfect time is just procrastination and fear holding you back from moving further. If you choose to sit around and wait for some sort of calling or fate, you’re only missing out on many opportunities that are passing you by.

Fearing that you will be wrong

If you remain in your comfort zone forever, chances are you aren’t trying anything new and you will never grow or reach new heights. This typically happens based off fear that we will fail. But who cares if you fail? We all fail. It’s inevitable. No one succeeds without failing. It’s time we change our perspective on failure and embrace it, because it’s nothing but a stepping stone moving you forward. Don’t forget to learn from your mistakes. Assess what went wrong and what you can do differently next time. Learn to fail, but be smart about it.

Needing validation

Talk about killing your freedom! Needing approval from others does nothing but create anxiety, stress, and stalls you from being happy. If you’re constantly looking for outside sources to make you feel better about your decisions, it may be worth your time to practice some self-love. If you don’t believe in yourself and your choices, no one else will and you will be set up for disappointment. Stop wasting your time seeking approval from others and just believe in yourself and your goals. You will quit before you start if you put the importance of others opinions above your own. In fact, people are drawn to people who are true to themselves and their decisions. Confidence and self-approval are attractive traits that are essential for everyone.

Neglecting your health

Taking care of yourself should always come first. What good is success if you’re sick, run down and exhausted? Making it a priority to get adequate sleep, exercise, and eat healthily will improve your performance and productivity, help you to make smarter decisions, and give you more energy to take on all your endeavors.

The first step to overcoming bad habits is identifying them. If you are feeling in a rut, take some time to reflect and pinpoint the habits that could be holding you back. Once you can identify the specific habits you make, think about the toll each habit has taken on your life. Most often, people can eliminate and change bad habits when we understand the toll they take on our lives. There are endless habits, good and bad, that either drive us forward or weigh us back. Tackle the bad habits and watch yourself move higher up the ladder toward success!

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Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of San Francisco–based hint, a healthy lifestyle brand that produces the leading unsweetened flavored water and a scented sunscreen spray that’s oxybenzone and paraben-free. Listen to her podcast, Unstoppable, where she interviews founders, entrepreneurs, and disruptors across various industries and keep up with her on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

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