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What’s holding you back from success? Are you wondering why your climb up the corporate ladder is taking longer than you’d like? Or why you’ve been passed over for that promotion at work, again?

Successful people generally possess characteristics that positively impact their lives. But, in addition to that, they live lifestyles brimming with positive habits that also contribute to their success. In your case, you might have a few habits that are actually holding you back. If any of these strike a chord with you, you might want to consider changing your lifestyle a little bit and focusing on ways to decrease habits that are holding you back from success.

1. Living excessively: drinking, spending, etc.
2. Starting your day late.
3. Work-a-holism
4. Hanging onto toxic relationships.
5. Refusing to be a team player.
6. Eating crap.
7. A cluttered desk.
8. Skipping breakfast.
9. Not getting enough sleep.
10. Disorganization in your personal life.
11. Always thinking inside the box.
12. Failing to take responsibility for mistakes.
13. Poor grooming habits or personal hygiene.
14. Always saying “yes.”
15. Lying.
16. Forgetting people’s names.
17. Lack of a knowledge of worldly events (at least a few).
18. Inability to maintain a conversation.
19. Poor grammar.
20. Boastfulness.
21. Fearful of change.
22. Let people walk all over you.
23. Stubbornness.
24. Pridefulness.
25. Never asking for help.
26. Being overly conservative.
27. A weak handshake.
28. Inability to relax.
29. Lack of personal interests.
30. Ungratefulness.

Renata Musial

Writing about entrepreneurs gives this former attorney a platform to help others do what she loves to do best: start new businesses. Renata’s not only writing about entrepreneurship, she’s doing it, too. She formerly owned and operated a solo law practice and most recently a pop-up dress boutique, Frock ‘n Roll Chicago, built on her own from the ground up. She is a new mamma to a little boy, a lover of all things culinary (primarily the eating part), and spends most of her albeit-limited free time coming up with brilliant (and not so brilliant) business ideas.

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