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Self Defeating Behavior

 
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PostPosted: Dec Sun 17, 2006 1:12 pm    Post subject: Self Defeating Behavior Reply with quote

Self Defeating Behavior

The Top 10 Self-Defeating Behaviors in Business.
Wouldn't you want to avoid your biggest professional tragedy, if you could? The biggest tragedy would be coming to the end of your career, realizing that it had been mediocre, with little to take pride in, and that you did it to yourself. What you could have prevented, you were unable to avoid, because you "Got in Your Own Way" by not overcoming your Self-Defeating Behaviors.

1. Procrastinating:
If you're always late on completing things, people stop relying on you and pretty soon, they start overlooking you.

2. Not Following Through:
You know where "good intentions" lead? Follow through requires follow up. If you don't have a follow up plan set up ahead of time, you won't follow through.

3. Not Preparing Well Enough:
If you don't take time to prepare, instead of shooting from your head, you'll shoot from your hip. Then more often then not, you'll proceed to shoot yourself in the foot.

4. Getting Involved with the Wrong People:
Yes, there are bad people in the world. If you keep giving the wrong people the benefit of the doubt, it'll backfire and you'll be the one who has to clean up the mess.

5. Always Having to Be Right:
Know-it-alls who don't know what they're talking about are jerks, whereas know-it-alls who do know what they're talking about are merely asses. And besides that, as right as you think you are, is as wrong as you can turn out to be. Always having to be right can create so much resentment, that you'd better always be right; because you're building up a large contingency of people who can't wait to see you fall on your face.

6. Taking Things Too Personally:
When people take criticism too personally, instead of seeing that it is about fixing a problem, the problem becomes bigger and it takes longer to fix. Take problems seriously, not personally

7. Having Unrealistic Expectations:
When you confuse what is reasonable (i.e. what sounds sensible) with what is realistic (i.e. what is likely to happen), you set yourself up to fail.

8. Quitting Too Soon:
You have more control over trying and quitting than you do over succeeding or failing. If you always quit, you'll never succeed; if you always try, you'll eventually succeed.

9. Not Learning from Your Mistakes:
Successful people don't make fewer mistakes than unsuccessful people. They just don't keep repeating the same mistakes. It's important to remember that if you can't admit you've made a mistake, you can't learn from it.

10. Playing it Too Safe:
The world is in such a rapid state of change. Doing the same thing over and over, expecting it to be safe, may turn out not to be so safe.

Source: Get Out Of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior by Mark Goulston, M.D. and Philip Goldberg
©1996 Perigee Books/The Berkley Publishing Group.
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