50 ways we hinder improvement

Or Things we should improve

Created by Tom Curtis August 2010Blog: www.onimproving.blogspot.comOther presentations on www.slideshare.net Search Onimproving Email: ideamerchants@gmail.com

I spend most of my writing and reading time focusing on how to improve. This slide set does this as well, but

by listing behaviors and patterns that hinder or in many cases stop improvement. This list is for us to

look at and see what we recognize in ourselves. If we can see our faults, we can begin efforts to overcome

them, to improve. Please resist the temptation to shift the focus from yourself. The rewards will be worth it. We do not need to correct all findings at once, but we can start somewhere. May reviewing this list help you

in your improvement process.-Tom Curtis

See improvement as only a future

endeavor

Ways we hinder improvementDo not set goals

Refuse to measure yourself or group

Continually change course

Find excuses for failure

Claim to be special

Prefer potential to results

Seek to seem, rather than to be

Believe your own hype

Practice self justification

Never be wrong

Avoid responsibility

Learn but never apply

Focus on others when finding fault, and you will back door

yourself exalt.

Ways we hinder improvementDo not plan

Practice self-deception

Speak in "if only" language

Always blame others

Refuse to see opportunity for self improvement

Fault find in others

Blame the system

Expect entitlements

Require customization in everything

Always put off to tomorrow

Avoid figurative mirrors

Be quick to offense

Goals are for others, but not for me, I would rather

have my options free.

Ways we hinder improvementTalk without action

Refuse to change

Ease before effort

For natural talent to be enough

Unrealistic expectations of others

Have a ready excuse or scape goat

Hold grudges

Never face opposition

Live completely in the past

Relish others' failure

Constantly complain

Fault the equipment

If at first it does not come with

ease, it will never then my talent

please.

Ways we hinder improvementExpect someone else to set your path

Be paralyzed by too much choice

Claim too little information

Compare personal strength to others weakness

Feel sorry for self

Always talk about effort and never about results

Refuse to acknowledge others' accomplishment

Be jealous

Always feel safe

Build protection around your ego

Accept status quo in all you do

Claim uniqueness only when needing an excuse

Improvement is for another day, today is but to laugh

and play.

Never do anything you are not already

good at