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Successful people are not born with good habits. Many of them develop a few key habits that help them to find success and stay on track. It is important to be proactive, however, and follow these 10 habits to avoid becoming an unsuccessful person.
People should take time to consider the things they do in their everyday lives which can lead in either direction toward success or toward failure.
The path towards success is paved with positive actions and good choices, so it’s only natural for someone who wants to be successful to be mindful of those choices that create a negative outcome for themselves or their family members and those around them.
Here are ten habits that can prevent you from becoming successful:
1. Avoiding Realistic Goals
Goals act as mile-markers on the road to success. They help you to organize your life around a singular purpose, they push you forward and they give you direction and work ethic to continue pushing forward.
Once a goal is established, however, it is easy for people to fall back into old habits or to slack off because they have reached their goal. Goal setting should be an everyday activity for people who want to achieve success, not just something that happens once every year…
