<p>I am a big fan of habits. Good ones that is.</p>
<p>Of course, not all habits are productive ones.</p>
<p>Some are bad for us, they stop us from succeeding, and they reinforce negative patterns that we’ve picked up from parents, friends or colleagues.</p>
<p>No one is perfect, but I’ve found that the most successful people find ways to replace their bad habits with good ones.</p>
<p>A successful career, after all, is really just a series of good habits put into action over and over again.</p>
<p>But in order to eliminate our vices and form productive habits, we need to identify our destructive ones. <span class="post-teaser-more"><br /><br />&nbsp;=>> <a href="https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2017/07/destructive-habits-holding-you-back/" title="Permanent Link: Six destructive habits that could be holding you back" rel="bookmark">Click to read the full article...</a> <i></span></p>{"id":3007,"date":"2017-07-29T08:32:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T13:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2023-01-30T11:30:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T16:30:18","slug":"destructive-habits-holding-you-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2017\/07\/destructive-habits-holding-you-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Six destructive habits that could be holding you back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of habits. Good ones that is.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, not all habits are productive ones.<\/p>\n<p>Some are bad for us, they stop us from succeeding, and they reinforce negative patterns that we\u2019ve picked up from parents, friends or colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>No one is perfect, but I\u2019ve found that the most successful people find ways to replace their bad habits with good ones.<\/p>\n<p>A successful career, after all, is really just a series of good habits put into action over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>But in order to eliminate our vices and form productive habits, we need to identify our destructive ones. <span class=\"post-teaser-more\"><br \/><br \/>&nbsp;=>> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getmotivation.com\/motivationblog\/2017\/07\/destructive-habits-holding-you-back\/\" title=\"Permanent Link: Six destructive habits that could be holding you back\" rel=\"bookmark\">Click to read the full article...<\/a> <i><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I&#039;m a big fan of habits. 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