To Excel in 2025: Leave These Habits Behind

Elevate your value to new heights.

James Michael Sama
9 min readNov 29, 2024

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What makes someone “high value?” It’s not rooted in how much they make, or what they look like, how many friends they have, or their relationship status…High value people simply decide to recognize their own worth and show up in the world accordingly.

They project their confidence in their own value through the things they do, of course, but equally as important are the things they don’t do. The behaviors they don’t engage in. The things they don’t tolerate both from others, and from themselves.

Usually around this time of year, many of us turn to resolutions and pledges for changing behaviors that will increase our “value” in the new year. This is when I hear from a lot of you who are ready to pursue private coaching to start the year off strong.

More often than not, we talk about things we want to start doing what we haven’t been already.

In this article, let’s discuss some of the things that you should stop doing in order to feel more secure in your own worth:

1: Trying to convince others of your value.

First thing’s first — people who are secure in themselves don’t have to tell other they’re secure. That act, in itself, signals…

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James Michael Sama
James Michael Sama

Written by James Michael Sama

I help you evolve into the ultimate version of yourself. Life & Executive Coach. Multi #1 writer. Trusted by: CNN, CNBC, NY Post, CBS, more. Say hi! @JamesMSama

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