If you want to be successful in all your daily dealings, you need to imbibe these 8 things successful people avoid every day.If you get decent value from making to-do lists, you’ll get huge returns — in productivity, in improved relationships, and in personal well-being — from adding these items to your not-to-do list:
Every day, promise yourself you won’t:
1. Wait until you’re sure you will succeed.
You can never feel sure you will succeed at something new, but you can always feel sure you are committed to giving something your best.
And you can always feel sure you will try again if you fail.
Stop waiting. You have a lot less to lose than you think, and everything to gain.
2. Multitask during a meeting.
The easiest way to be the smartest person in the room is to be the person who pays the most attention to the room.
You’ll be amazed by what you can learn, both about the topic of the meeting and about the people in the meeting, if you stop multitasking and start paying close attention. You’ll flush out and understand hidden agendas, spot opportunities to build bridges, and find ways to make yourself indispensable to the people who matter.
It’s easy, because you’ll be the only one trying. And you’ll be the only one succeeding — on multiple levels.
3. Check your phone while you’re talking to someone.
You’ve done it. You’ve played the “Is that your phone? Oh, it must be mine” game. You’ve tried the you-think-sly-but-actually-really-obvious downward glance. You’ve done the “Wait, let me answer this text” thing.
Maybe you didn’t even say “wait.” You just stopped talking, stopped paying attention, and did it.
Want to stand out? (Especially if you’re a boss?) Want to be that person everyone loves because they make you feel, when they’re talking to you, like you’re the most important person in the world?
Stop checking your phone. It doesn’t notice when you aren’t paying attention. Other people? They notice.
And they care.
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