10 Insanely Toxic Habits You Need To Destroy To Be Successful

We all want to be successful, but we don’t want to face what’s holding us back. Many ignore blind spots, only to fall prey to our shortcomings down the line. So how can we trim the fat, cut our faults to the bone, and get into the habit of success?

Here are 10 toxic habits you need to destroy to allow success to find you:

1. Destroy your idols.

We all need people to aspire to and to learn from. My concern is when these human beings begin to take on a near deity status in the business community. I have a huge amount of respect for many of them, but they’re not you. Nobody is living your journey.

Use their experience to help guide you, but nobody has the same path to success. Success has indicators. There are certain patterns to success.

Use the pieces that apply to you. Dispel the rest.

2. Destroy your need to compare.

This past weekend I visited a friends summer home. It was larger than my full-time residence. I joked with his wife that I want to be happy for them, but there’s this small part of me that hates them. So, I get it. We all want to have what we don’t have. But there is a time when you need to let go of comparison.

Take that energy and focus on yourself, and how you can get better to attain what you’re comparing yourself to.

3. Destroy your rationalization

Nothing is worse than saying “if only.” Things are the way they are. Define what you want to change, and get about changing it. If you can’t leave your job because you have to pay your mortgage, I get it. But don’t complain to me that you want to start a business, and say “I wish.”

No more wishing. Stop watching Netflix, or golfing, or going to the Yankee Game, and use that time to build your business and break free. Or just shut up about it.

4. Destroy your poor opinion of yourself.

I’ve met many people who’ve been in one job for many years and think that they’re destined to be miserable in that role forever. You have the capacity to learn a new skill, and you can jump industries. It will be difficult, but what happens if you never try.

So shake off the fear of the unknown, dispel your self-limiting belief that hugely successful people are more talented than you. They’re just a bit more obsessed.

Become obsessed and make power moves that nobody expects.

5. Destroy your habit of pointing fingers.

Nobody is responsible for your good or bad fortune, except you. Nobody. Deal with it.

6. Destroy your need to judge.

Rich people aren’t entitled. Many of them worked their butt’s off for what they have. Poor people aren’t lazy, they just don’t know any better, and are stuck.

Get past your judgments, and move forward.

7. Destroy your need to have all the answers.

When confronted with a hard question, the best thing you can say is “I don’t know.” Then go find the answer. You don’t have all of the answers. If you’re smart enough to surround yourself with motivated people who will lift you up, and support you, you’ll get to the right answer eventually.

8. Destroy your need for perfection.

You will break some eggs on your road to success. Nothing will ever be perfect.

You can strive for greatness, but you can’t lament when you miss the mark.

9. Destroy your need for comfort.

Throughout your journey, you will be uncomfortable. You will feel insecure. You will feel self-doubt. You may even feel panicked. Get used to that feeling and keep moving.

Discomfort won’t kill you. But succumbing to self-pity will.

10. Destroy your need to wait for the perfect time.

There is never a perfect time to start a business, sell a business, or move to the next challenge in your career.

If you feel the need, take the first step. Right now.