6 Activities I Cut Out of My Life to Make Serious Progress

Let go of these habits to become more successful

Jack Krier
5 min readMar 14, 2022
Photo by Warren Wong on Unsplash

Many activities — like reading, working out, and journaling — will help you progress in life. Others, on the other hand, will have the opposite effect.

For many years, I was performing various activities on autopilot — simply because they were habits. At some point, I realized that these were creating anxiety and doubts.

In other words, these habits were toxic, and they hampered my progress.

Just because you’ve been doing something for a long time doesn’t mean it’s useful. In that same vein, too much comfort prevents you from taking your life to the next level.

The following are six habits that created mental, physical, and financial blockades in my life. As such, they were stopping me from getting closer to my goals.

On this basis, here are six activities I cut out of my life to make serious progress.

Spending time with naysayers

We all have friends and acquaintances who do not share our ideas. And there’s nothing wrong with that.

Having a circle of yes-men would be terrible as it would prevent us from dealing with contrasting opinions.

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Jack Krier

Writer. Photographer. Nomad. I write about entrepreneurship, remote work, and personal growth | All of my links: https://linktr.ee/jackroaming