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Being Helpful Can Hinder Your Success

If’s a nice feeling to be able to help a coworker. In no time at all, you become the go-to person and everyone comes to you for help. You give them mini-trainings in procedure or software problems. or just about anything. And everyone flourishes but you. You are so busy helping everyone else that your own work doesn’t get done in a timely manner. While it can make you feel important and give you a nice feeling to be the …

Laziness and Procrastination

While I realize that procrastination is not another term for laziness, I’ve also seen how procrastination can engender laziness. Procrastination can start out as a fear of failure or a dozen other root causes, but after a while, you can get so accustomed to not pushing yourself to do anything difficult, that you stop trying. It’s the part about giving up and giving in that seems to have such a damaging effect on one’s life and distorts one’s perception of …

Out With the Old; In With the New

There are just so many things you can do in the course of a day and, no matter how industrious you are, and no matter how much energy you have, you still can’t squeeze twenty-seven hours into a twenty-four hour day. In the old days, I used to feel guilty if I didn’t have time to do everything that needed to be done or that I wanted to do. Eventually, I came to the conclusion that guilt is a wasted …

Recognizing the Handwriting on the Wall

Most of us have the ability to recognize the handwriting on the wall when it’s there to be seen. I say, when it’s there to be seen because sometimes, through no fault of our own, we’re taken so by surprise that we’re blindsided. Whether it’s in a relationship or in business, if we’re paying attention and we’re not living in a dreamworld, trying to delude ourselves, the clues are there to be seen. So, what holds us back from doing …

Connie H. Deutsch

Tag Archives: tasks

Being Helpful Can Hinder Your Success

Laziness and Procrastination

Out With the Old; In With the New

Recognizing the Handwriting on the Wall

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