Nine Ways to Stay Stuck at Work

September 2004

I am pleased to send to you the September issue of Champions, Living Regret-Free. In his book, No Regrets-A 10 Step Program for Living in the Present and Leaving the Past Behind, Hamilton Beazley, Ph.D. describes the following 9 ways to stay stuck at work:

Nine Ways to Stay Stuck at Work

1. Perfectionism-Not living up to the high standard can make you feel like a failure. Your attempts can exasperate your co-workers.
   
   
2. Exaggerated Control-If you need to micromanage every project, your workplace relationships will suffer and you won't learn from others' ideas.
   
   
3. Foreseeing the Future-Blaming yourself for not seeing a mistake coming will keep you from seeing the solution.
   
   
4. Knowing What Others Are Thinking-The only way to be accurate is to ask.
   
   
5. Personalizing Events-Taking everything personally increases stress and hurts teamwork.
   
   
6. Incomplete Comparisons-If you think others are treated better than you and see yourself as a victim, you will become one.
   
   
7. Undeserved Guilt-Being accountable is good., Blaming yourself for everything that goes wrong is not.
   
   
8. Reimagining the Past-If you spend your time glorifying the past, you won't work towards improving the present.
   
   
9. Using Regrets to Justify Inaction-Don't let "if only" thoughts keep you from achieving your goals.

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