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It was difficult to select from your excellent STOP DOING suggestions. Below are 10 great ones with bonus suggestion I particularly like!

1. STOP doing tasks that do not pay me my appropriate hourly rate.
2. STOP trying to make everything perfect.
3. STOP letting my days go on forever. Get a good night’s rest.
4. STOP checking email all day long and STOP replying them immediately.
5. STOP shortchanging my health by replacing exercise with work
6. STOP doing other people’s work for them; train them to do it for themselves.
7. STOP being distracted by work during family time.
8. STOP ‘pausing’ so often in the middle of major tasks.
9. STOP wasting time (mindless T.V, gaming & nonessential social networking) and replace with quality motivational reading and DVD’s.
10. STOP taking meetings and appointments that are not using my best time to produce the results and goals that I have.

10.5. STOP listening to news talk radio and listen to only material from SUCCESS magazine.

Some additional great STOP DOING ideas: read more »

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In my last blog post (read here) I took a major step in making this my best year ever: I admitted that I’m a workaholic in need of intervention. I know many of you out there are like me—in constant motion but never quite able to move beyond relative success.

So, as promised, I’m going to share what I have learned from the super-achievers I’ve interviewed in SUCCESS over the past year. I’ve outlined 12 Steps for changing those behaviors that block our creative juices and stifle our potential. This week, we’re going to focus on putting a stop to the little things that keep us from achieving our big goals in life.

STEP 1: Make a STOP-Doing List

We all have our to-do lists, those sometimes endless tasks that we believe, when finished, will shoot us into the stratosphere of success. However, have you noticed that while you check some tasks off, the list keeps growing? Your work days get longer, your time with family dwindles, and you find that even though you are in constant motion, you’re really standing still.

Your personal transformation has to begin by read more »