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The Habit That’s Killing Your Productivity, Based On Your Zodiac Sign

Aries

You rebel against everyone’s advice. Even if it’s an innocent suggestion, your rebellious nature twists it to sound like they’re “telling you what to do,” which means you’ve stopped all work entirely in protest.

Taurus

You stubbornly stick to the routine that doesn’t work. Not only will you be stubborn if someone else points out how it’s not working, but even your own inner monologue won’t be able to crack your notorious stubbornness.

Gemini

You keep competing with everyone. You’ll care so much about “winning” a make-believe battle that you’ll completely forget about the actual work that needs to be done. Your shit-talking will always take precedence.

Cancer

You keep doing everyone else’s job. Any time someone asks for help, you say yes, even if your own work suffers. You can’t be productive with your own tasks if you keeping focusing on everyone else’s.

Leo

You stop caring when no one’s paying attention. It’s as if your motivation completely ceases to exist if no one’s watching. It’s like the tree falling in a forest analogy. If you get no praise, is the task even worth doing it?

Virgo

Your perfectionism causes you to freeze. You’re normally great at getting things done, but your big demotivator is your crippling perfectionism. If you can’t do it well, then why bother, right?

Libra

You care too much about others’ opinions. You’ll spend so much time asking for your friends’ ideas or advice that you could have probably sent that email a hundred times over.

Scorpio

You never ask for help. You’ll do anything not to look vulnerable. You could be completely stumped on what to do and all it could take is asking one question to one person and you’d still be sitting there, problem left unsolved.

Sagittarius

You only ever think of the bigger picture. You have big dreams and you’re ready to achieve them, but you get tripped up when it comes to the minutiae. You’d rather do anything else except make a detailed to-do list to actually get the little things done.

Capricorn

You never take a break. It might feel like you’re the most productive person in the room, but how productive is a wheel that never gets oiled? If you take breaks and focus on self-care, you’ll be so much more productive when you get back to work.

Aquarius

You get too caught up in the daily grind. You often don’t think about the future and what you could be doing now to make things even better in the next few years. Make sure you’re focusing on the right thing.

Pisces

You’re stuck in daydream mode. Whether it keeps you from focusing on what you’re doing right now or it prevents you from making more realistic goals, your Pisces-style dreamy nature gets in the way of your productivity.