6,7,8 8 Common Habits That Destroy Your Success

 

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6. Fixing weaknesses


“Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.”—Joyce Meyer
If you are a really boring and nervous public speaker, and your goal is to be the head of sales, you need to work on public speaking because it’s essential to your success. However, most weaknesses do not require attention and remediation. When you spend time “improving” weaknesses that aren’t related to your goals, you take time way from things that will drive results. Focusing too much time on weaknesses is the formula for mediocrity.  If you instead spent that time taking a relevant strength and maximizing it so you can be the best in that skill, it becomes easy for you to stand out and attract the attention of those who are making decisions about you (learn more about maximizing strengths here). That’s the most efficient way to put yourself on the path to success. Ditch mediocrity and focus on your superlatives.

7. Going it alone

“The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.” —Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

This is one of the biggest challenges for some of us: The belief that we are omnipotent and self-sufficient. The most accomplished people in the world know differently. They surround themselves with a tribe and foster lifelong partnerships, participating in a community of the best specialists on the planet. If you go it alone, your only companions will be the exhausting things you don’t do well or don’t enjoy doing.

8. Surrounding yourself with clones

“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”—Stephen R. Covey

The comfort that comes from being around people just like you has a negative side effect. It causes a blindness that forces you see the world through an impossibly narrow focus. We have all seen managers who hire people just like them, and we all have colleagues who are “yes” men or women. They let ignorance drive action. The most successful leaders surround themselves with a diverse group of people who challenge their thinking and actions, expand their perspective and enlighten them about even grander outcomes