The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective People

Steven Convey made a great best seller when he came out with the seven habits of highly effective people. However, not all of us have adopted the habits as quickly as we would have liked. Some of us are a little quicker than others. What we have become instead are highly ineffective people, and here are our seven habits, and breaking habits is a hard thing to do.

1. Be passive
Don't make any decisions. After all, life has a way of going on without your input anyway.
Don't ask for what you want because people will always be giving you what they think you need anyway.
Don't take an initiative. Initiative? That's a big word, wonder what it means.
Use words and phrases like " have to" and " must." Why wouldn't it be a good idea for you to wait for something to happen and then react to it? Breaking this habit? Forget about it, if you are a quiet and inactive person.

2. Begin with the phrase " I just don't know where to start" in mind.
Fear, isn't that the best way to get things done? Highly ineffective people don't think about the end product or the final goal because they never start anything on time if at all. And well, who said anything was wrong with that?

3. Put first things off
Procrastination, avoidance, and denial are the keys for this habit to work. Breaking this habit is impossible if you've got the three keys all in the right places of your heart. Got a bill? Put it off. A date with your girlfriend? Put it off. That's all you have to do to begin to adopt the third habit of highly ineffective people.

4. Think Lose/lose. If you can get everyone to lose, including yourself, wouldn't the world be a better place? No need for all this competition that's going on all over the place. Also, if nobody wins, nobody gets a big unattractive ego. Breaking the lose/lose habit is out of the question for those who have the key traits of low self-esteem, depression, and low self-image.

5. Seek first to be understood, then to understand
Everything all about you is it? Enough said here.

6. Disassociate
yourself from other people. Working on teams? Who needs that?

7. Go to work
And never take place in any other recreational activities. Work can be fun. Breaking this habit is out of the question if you have dedication, attention to detail, and bills to pay.

So after reading the list, you are a highly ineffective person right? Well, don't despair because admitting you have a problem is the very first step to beginning to adopt the habits of a highly effective person. Then, breaking those habits will be difficult because they are all good ones to have....supposedly.