The difference between people who keep moving forward in life and those who stall sometimes isn’t talent, luck, or hard work. It’s the habits they choose to say goodbye to.
A friend of mine, mid-thirties, used to answer every email within minutes. Weekends, holidays, dinner with his kids. Didn’t matter. Then one Sunday afternoon he put his phone in a drawer, told his wife he wasn’t checking it until Monday, and went for a walk. He told me later it f…