Five “Good Habits” You Need to Unlearn

You Need to Unlearn

Stop Thinking So Positively

When we visualize our goals as already achieved, it can subconsciously lull our minds into complacency. Goals are important, but make sure you are mindful of the difficulties that you will face along the way.

Stop Trying to Fill Every Hour of Your Day

Ever wonder why you get most of your ideas in the shower? It's because the shower is among the last sacred spaces where we aren't distracted by colleagues or technology. Our ideas need time to ferment and connect with other ideas, and being bored allows our minds to accomplish this naturally.

Stop Caring What the Internet Thinks About You

It feels good to check our blog's traffic, Google our names, or compare our Twitter follower counts, but this kind of "insecurity" work rarely helps us advance our creative pursuits. Tasks like these are intellectual empty calories, giving us the appearance of doing work. If you truly want these measurements to rise, focus on getting things done while compartmentalizing these activities to specifics times during your week.

Stop Equating Rejection with Failure

Getting rejected, while painful, isn't what can hold us back— it's how we react to such setbacks that often determines our success. Research shows that handling rejection with an "I'll show them" mentality can actually boost performance over those who have the easier route of acceptance.

Stop Spending More Time on Your Work

When we feel we need to get more stuff done, many of us invest more of our time and work weekends or evenings. The funny thing is, our time is finite and by overworking ourselves we can cause collateral damage to our creativity. Instead of spending more time on our work we should spend less. By embracing our bodies' natural rhythm of "pulsing and pausing" we can sustain our energy levels.