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Any professional can fall into bad habits that diminish or actively impede their drive and productivity, and when these habits catch on broadly in the workplace, morale can suffer across the board.

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When you develop these negative habits, it can severely impact work performance and, because the behavior has become so routine, you may not even realize the harm you’re causing. Here’s how to tackle ...

Don’t try to interrupt a bad habit. Instead, give in … and then think about how you feel about what you’re doing. I like to think I’m fairly disciplined. I can sit and write all day. I can do mundane ...

We are creatures of habits, both good and bad. What separates the good from the bad are the negative consequences that result from the bad ones, ranging from mildly embarrassing—say, nail-biting when ...

They seem healthy on the surface, but these habits can lead to bad things. We’ve been trained to believe that the only problematic habits out there are the ones that will first make a fool of us and ...

Sometime during childhood, I developed a seemingly unbreakable habit of twirling my hair and picking at split ends. It happened mostly during moments of stress, anxiety, and inactivity, and I always ...

Burnout is a growing concern in today’s fast-paced, bad work habits environment. The state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion hurts their job performance and the organization as a whole.

Nearly half of our daily activities are performed out of habit, occurring with minimal conscious thought. These automated behavioral patterns, ranging from morning routines to evening scrolling, ...

Maybe you bite your nails or tug at your hair. Or, you’re drinking more than you’d like or checking your phone way too often. We all have habits that can seem to take over our lives, and despite ...