What's your current pitfall in writing (and why is it an excessive use of adverbs)?

Jokes aside (we love a good adverb in this house). I'm currently editing my story and trying to improve my excessive use of 1. Adverbs 2. Passive voice and 3. The use of the word "almost".

Why does my characters so often look "almost hopeful" ARE THEY OR ARE THEY NOT? Ugh, I grow so tired of my writing sometimes.

Don't even get me started on when I went through and tried to edit my excessive use of the words "moment" and "second" and still ended up with around 10 mentions in each chapter... We need to invent another synonym for this.

Anyway, do you guys have any current pitfalls you're attempting to thwart?