Being imprisoned within yourself as Number 1.
It has a tendency to make you self-centered. Pride can bury itself in your subconscious and sabotage you. Pride will permeate your thoughts, words, and actions. Without intending, you will be arrogant, conceited, and selfish. These are not qualities that endear people to you.
Keep your pride in check, embrace humility. With pride you can never go far. Use pride wisely.
2. GREED
Inflaming the passion to possess more than you have.
Greed can hurt you is if you want too much too soon and you only consider the short term, forgetting that some time you have to sacrifice the here-and-now in order to plan ahead. Greed is also good, because it inspires you and drives you to work hard so you achieve and win and succeed. But only if you know the level of greed you need to have.
3. ANGER
Using emotions to manipulate and control people and circumstances.
Is anger actually a good, helpful ally that’s just badly misunderstood? The basic “message” of anger is that there is something you really want to change, but your way is blocked. Anger is a natural and potentially productive emotion.
Its best to register your displeasure when things have not been done properly without drama or generating chaos. If anger is a valuable source of information and motivation, anger could be a great asset. Remember, anger will typically escalate, and often drives people toward aggression and attack
4. SLOTH
Doing minimal or the least work. and loving ease.
Sloth is not merely laziness, it is more properly understood as sorrow or indifference.
5. ENVY
Feeling the pain of someone else's advancement and possessions.
6. RESTLESSNESS
Thinking and feeling that there's always something better somewhere else.
SHARED FROM: BAREFOOT LEADERSHIP BY ALVIN UNG
REFERENCES:
1. http://michaelhyatt.com/five-ways-leaders-can-avoid-the-pitfall-of-pride.html
2. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Entrepreneur-Advice/576/The-Fourth-Deadly-Workplace-Sin-Greed.html
3. http://www.radical-leadership-management.com/anger-management.html
4. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Business-Coach/146/EQ-Leadership-Vital-Sign-The-Power-of-Anger.html
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