Five Small Things You Might Be Doing That Could Be Sabotaging Your Success

The things I wish I knew when I was younger that I didn’t realize were sabotaging my success and what to do about it now!

Looking back over my life has given me a lot of clarity. As you live your life in the present moment, you think things are going well. You have a good job. You are saving money each paycheck. You go to the gym regularly. Things seem to move along well.

Except years pass and you wonder why you don’t have incredible success. You wonder why you aren’t a millionaire yet, despite saving money. Or why you don’t have six-pack abs after going to the gym for years and trying to eat carefully. Or why you’re not a Senior Director or Vice President of the company you are working for (or even why the business you started hasn’t taken off), despite putting in the time and hours.

While the big goals are important, sometimes it’s the small things that get you. As Robert Pirsig says in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance:

Below, I share ten things I did when I was younger that slowly, but surely, impacted my success. Removing these ten things from your life will help you get to ‘success’ much faster:

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