Millions of people are doing Dry January right now.
They’re skipping the booze, not because it’s fun, but because they want to feel better, work better, and stop lying to themselves with the ol’ “I’ll start Monday” routine.
Guess what? Your business has its own version of Dry January.
It just involves bad tech habits instead of bad margaritas.
You know the ones. The things everyone knows are risky or just plain annoying—but you keep doing them anyway because “it’s fine” and “we’re busy.”
Until one day… it’s really not fine.
Here are six bad tech habits your business needs to quit cold turkey—and what to do instead.
That innocent-looking button? It’s secretly a villain. It’s caused more business damage than actual hackers.
Yes, restarts are annoying. But software updates fix security holes—big ones—that bad guys love to sneak through.
Want proof? The WannaCry ransomware attack crushed businesses in 150+ countries. Why? Microsoft had already fixed the hole—two months earlier. The only victims? People who hit “remind me later” one too many times.
🛠 Quit it: Schedule updates for after hours, or let your IT team handle it automatically. No more surprise shutdowns. No more hacker welcome mats.
We all have that password. It's strong. It works. And you use it everywhere—from email to online shopping to your accounting software.
Bad news: if even one site gets hacked, your favorite password is now out in the wild. And hackers don’t guess passwords—they buy them and test them everywhere.
This is called credential stuffing. And it works way too well.
🛠 Quit it: Get a password manager. It remembers everything so you don’t have to. One master password, unlimited secure ones for everything else. Done.
“Hey, what’s the login for that thing?”
“Here you go! [super secret password]”
Sent in plain text. Stored forever. In your inbox, your backups, your cloud. One email breach later, a hacker can search “password” and collect the keys to your digital kingdom.
🛠 Quit it: Use a password manager with built-in sharing. People get access, not actual passwords. Bonus: you can revoke it anytime. If you must share manually, break it up across channels and change it immediately after.
Someone needed to install something once, so they became an admin. Then someone else. And another. Now half your team can change critical settings, install sketchy software, or accidentally delete important stuff.
And if one of those accounts gets hacked? Game over.
🛠 Quit it: Follow the “least privilege” rule. Give people just enough access to do their jobs—nothing more. Yes, it takes 5 more minutes to set it up right. But it's worth it.
You had a tech problem. Found a quick fix. Said you’d deal with it properly “later.”
That was three years ago.
Now that awkward workaround is just “how we do things.” It wastes time. It’s fragile. And nobody remembers what it’s even supposed to do.
🛠 Quit it: Make a list of the band-aid fixes your team uses. Don’t try to fix them all yourself. Let us help you fix them the right way. One and done.
You know the one. It's got 12 tabs, endless formulas, and only three people understand it. One of them retired.
If it breaks? Good luck.
Spreadsheets are great tools. They’re terrible systems. No backups. No audit trail. One accidental delete and poof—it’s chaos.
🛠 Quit it: Write down what the spreadsheet actually does. Then replace it with tools built for that job—CRM, scheduling, inventory, whatever. These tools have backups, permissions, and don’t rely on one wizard who knows the secret formula.
You already know these aren’t great ideas.
The problem isn’t ignorance—it’s busyness.
Bad tech habits stay alive because:
It’s just like Dry January. You quit, not because you feel like it, but because you want a reset. A better setup.
Willpower? Overrated.
What really works? Changing your environment so the right thing becomes the easy thing.
That’s where a good IT partner comes in:
They don’t just lecture you. They change the system so doing it right doesn’t take effort—it’s just how it works.
Book a Bad Habit Audit.
In 15 minutes, we’ll chat about what’s bugging your business tech, and show you a fast, easy fix.
No judgment. No tech-speak. Just smart moves to make 2026 smoother, safer, and a lot less annoying.
👉 Schedule your 15-minute discovery call here
Because some habits are meant to be broken.
And January’s the perfect time to start.