Are your habits holding you back?

Have you ever stopped to think about what you’re doing?  Or why do you do it that way?  It’s often because that’s the way you’ve been taught, the way that works best for you, or simply because you’re used to doing it that way.

Breaking an old ‘bad’ habit or one that no longer serves us can be very hard to do.  When I gave up smoking over 2 years ago, I was amazed how much of my day that habit had become a part.  Like with each cup of coffee and after meals. 

And, to my dismay, smoking had also become an integral part of my creative process.  Thinking up new ideas called for a cigarette, as did typing articles.

But I was determined to break that habit so I persevered and eventually succeeded.

Obviously I had some very good reasons to want to change that particular habit, not least because it was costly and bad for my future health. 

With other habits, in your business for instance, it can be harder to tell why, or if they need to be broken, or replaced with better habits.  It can often take an outsider to question why you’re doing something, or to suggest you try another way (I do a lot of this with clients!).

Take a look at your systems and processes, what marketing activities you do, how you respond to enquiries or to customer complaints.  Look at anything in your business that has become a habit.  Is it still working well?  Could you get a better result if you did it differently?

Find out which outdated habits are holding your business back and start working on them.  Let me know how you get on.

You might also be interested in a related post I wrote recently:  Are you sitting Comfortably