10 Characteristics of Professionals

1. Professionals are ruthless with their time.
2. Professionals say no more than the say yes.
3. Professionals are driven entirely by habit, routine and ritual as opposed to inspiration and hokey new age bullshit.
4. Professionals view distraction as toxic. They implement safeguards like noise canceling headphones, website blocking tools and clean desks.
5. Professionals uncouple themselves from toxic environments.
6. Professionals don’t engage critics, participate in drama or feed trolls.
7. Professionals approach the blank page without an agenda.
8. Professionals don’t settle on version 1. Steve Jobs always asked people for two versions of everything.
9. Professionals compare less and create more.
10. Professionals spend their time on the essential few instead of the important many.

Inspired by a morning reading of The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.

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