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10 Bad Habits You Must Eliminate From Your Daily Routine
10 Bad Habits You Must Eliminate From Your Daily Routine
10 Bad Habits You Must Eliminate From Your Daily Routine
Routine
When it comes to productivity, the little things make all the difference. Quit sabotaging
yourself with these bad habits.
You are the sum of your habits. When you allow bad habits to take over, they
dramatically impede your path to success. The challenge is bad habits are insidious,
creeping up on you slowly until you don’t even notice the damage they’re causing.
The self-control required to develop good habits (and stop bad ones) also serves as the
foundation for a strong work ethic and high productivity. Self-control is like a muscle
-- to build it up you need to exercise it. Practice flexing your self-control muscle by
breaking the following bad habits:
Most of our favorite evening devices -- laptops, tablets and mobile phones -- emit
short-wavelength blue light brightly and right in your face. This exposure impairs
melatonin production and interferes with your ability to fall asleep as well as with the
quality of your sleep once you do nod off. As we’ve all experienced, a poor night’s
sleep has disastrous effects. The best thing you can do is to avoid these devices after
dinner (television is OK for most people as long as they sit far enough away from the
set).