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A list of behaviors that hinder us in improving and an opportunity for self assessment.
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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: [email protected]
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