What bad habits do you have?

habits Bad business habits are the mistakes you make when you aren’t paying attention because they come to you so naturally. Your business does them every day but invariably finds them hard to break.

These are things that have appeared, for all sorts of reasons ... some of them for unbelievable reasons.

Bad habits are not broken; they are replaced by good ones. It takes persistence and around 100 days to develop a new way of doing things, and integrate them into your systems.

I inherited a cookbook and discovered this gem that sums things up how unquestioned procedures can lead to inefficiency.

My husband asked me why I always cut the roast in half and cooked it in two separate dishes. I told him that was how my mother did it, so I called my mother to ask why. My mother said that it was how my grandmother did it, so I then called my grandmother and asked her ... why did you cook your roast in two pans? Grandmother laughed, explaining it had nothing to do with better cooking and everything to do with her being too poor to buy a big roasting pan.

Three generations of women, who could now presumably afford a bigger pan, had been adding in an extra step and an extra pan to clean, all because nobody had stepped back and asked a few simple questions