41 HABITS OF UNSUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
by: Bisi Adewale
I want to quickly open your eyes to some habits mostly peculiar to unsuccessful people, you will need to run a check on your life for any of these and deal with them decisively if you so find any. If you have them in you and fail to put a halt to them, they will end up hurting your lives in the long run. They are:
1) They think know they know it all: Unsuccessful people are full of themselves, cocky and proud. They think they know it all, hence are not ready to learn
2) They don’t think before acting: They do put thinking behind while acting first before they begging to regret it
3) They do Fear Change: They fear and resist change, they fight anything and anybody that want to cause a change
4) They do give Up easily: They give up after one failure, they are too scared to try again.
5) They Fight others who are trying: They won’t do things but criticize others who are doing it.
6) They enjoy doing unproductive things: They do things that add nothing to them and are always committed to these things.
7) They keep wrong company: They keep company with people who are also going nowhere.
8) They place no value on time: They waste time, they come to meetings anytime they like,won’t keep up with appointments.
9) They place no value on relationships: They handle relationship foolishly, they move closer to you only if they can use you, they are users, they robbers in Relationship.
10) Spends Money foolishly: They are very bad in money management. They have no budget, neither do they have savings, nor planning.
11) They are unaccountable: They hate accountability, they are not accountable to anyone, they do whatever they like and distance themselves from anyone that will make them accountable.
12) They have no sense of excellence: Unsuccessful people have no sense of excellence. They do things the way they want and deliver it at the time that pleases them
13) They have no plan for tomorrow: Their plans are about today, they have no plan of what tomorrow should be and prepare themselves for it.
14) They don’t submit to leadership: They are rebels, they fight leaders and constituted authorities.
15) They have no mentors: They don’t believe in mentoring. Since they are lords in their kingdom and Emperors in their empires
16) They don’t set Goals: Unsuccessful people are known to live without vision nor goal, they can’t say specifically where they will like to be and how they want to get there.
17) They don’t share information: They easily hoard any information or idea they have. Keeping it to themselves so that others may not have access to it, thereby depriving themselves the privilege of multiplication
18) They live in envy: They envy successful people and hate the rich.
19) They are not focused: They easily get distracted to so many things that are not productive.
20) They are not ready to take the hard way to succeed: Takes the easy way out: They don’t like doing anything that is hard or difficult, they want the easy way out.
21) They never help others to succeed: Secretly hope others fail: because of envy they wish others that are successful fail like them.
22) They Talk too much: They talk more because they feel they know and ready to teach others.
23) They are bad listeners: They don’t listen to others because they have the thought that they always have the superior idea, hence they miss the opportunity of growth.
24) Blame others for their failure: They play the blame game, they pass the buck, they have God, bosses, parents, Government, employers, friends, weather, traffic etc to blame for their failure they never take the blame.
23) They keep grudges: They hold grudges against those they believe made them fail.
24) They don’t know what they want to be: They don’t have a specific purpose in life, they live life as it comes, they allow the tide of life to sway their ship to any harbor its desires.
25) They are not focused: absence of focus is the reason why people become unsuccessful, some folks simply lack focus that they can’t stand or stay on one thing for long
26) They stop learning: Unsuccessful believes they have nothing else to learn, they believe they know it all, they soon become obsolete and expire with time.
27) Have no sense of gratitude: They feel the whole world owes them and they suppose to be pampered and taken care of.
28) They are never appreciative: They don’t see reasons to appreciate anybody, they believe they have the right to be given anything that is given to them.
29) Think negative ways: They are full of negative feelings and thinking. Full of anger, sadness, envy etc
30) They keep friends only with people like them: They don’t make friends with people that will make them great or better, they keep friends with people that discuss their failure with them, blaming, cursing and hurting anybody they feel is responsible for their state.
31) They say negative things: They say so many negative things to themselves and people around them
32) Do negative things: They do so many negative things like street fighting, Keeping malice, fighting against authorities etc
33) They talk about people not about ideas: Yes! one of the attitudes of unsuccessful people is gossip, they gossip about people around them a lot, do you remember the wise saying, “Low people talk about people, great people talk about ideas” this is very true about unsuccessful people.
34) They pull others down: They always try to discourage people from trying new things and great ideas, they come with all sorts of discouragement and reasons why it can not be done since they can’t do it they don’t want anybody to do it and succeed.
35) They are sad when others succeed: when others succeed they hate it, they envy them, they disparage them, they talk ill of them and try to bring them down by all means.
36) They never take responsibility for their lives: They are never ready to take responsibility of any misery that happens to them, to them if a plan succeeds they did it, if it fails, someone else must have done it.
37) They have no vision that they follow through: They dream of making millions, building their houses, making it in life, but never set goals of doing it or take steps to actualize this, they just dwell in fools’ paradise
38)They Sleep too much: They have a bad attitude to sleep, they sleep too much, they can’t wake up to do things for themselves, they’ve forgotten the old saying: “He who must see the queen must wake up when his mates are sleeping”
39) They believe in luck, not in hard work: They believe too much in luck, they believe that one day they will be lucky and make it big, so they are waiting for that great day without doing anything, what a crazy wait.
40) They take slow actions: What they should do today they postpone it till tomorrow and another day and yet another day until it is never done or accomplished.
41) They Manage money wrongly: Management of Money is one great failure of the unsuccessful, they are the ones that borrow money to throw parties. They are the ones that give birth to six, seven children that they cannot cater for, they are the ones that spend lavishly when they have little money, only to live to regret it later.
