Hi.

I have [and so have many of my clients & friends] found that Excuses are the anchors of your life.

They weigh you down and hold you back.

And when you try to haul them in, they fight tooth and nail to drag you back to the bottom.

There will be the ones that you use on purpose and there are ones that you use without knowing[the silent killers].

Here’s 7 that may just cause you problems on occasion. I sincerely hope that You can rectify them if they are:

“I haven’t got the time”

One of the all time classics. What do you have the time for, then? Of course, your “time” should be used wisely.

But don’t shut yourself off to opportunities because they don’t fit your schedule.

This excuse is mostly used to brush off any attempt to get you to do something useful or help someone out. Mercy me!

“There’s always tomorrow”

Naturally. Why do something now [how inconvenient] when you could [not] do it tomorrow … or the tomorrow after that.

This is a ‘delaying excuse’. It’s not quite procrastination because you are making a decision [of sorts] … it’s a sneaky one, I”ll give you that.

Tomorrow may be too late, I’m sure you’ve heard that before.

“I’ll get around to it”

Eventually, maybe. This is an expansion of the previous excuse, in this instance, without the timeframe.

The bottom line is that you hope the “thing” that you are putting off will, in time be totally forgotten.

Therefore You can’t be held responsible. Delaying tactics are part and parcel of excuses.

When you consistently put things off[procrastination aside] then excuses have a good hold on you.

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“That’s been done before”

So then, why should I repeat [this excellent process/idea/result]? you will be thinking.

Just because it’s been done before doesn’t mean that it can’t be done again & again.

Don’t use this little gem to excuse yourself from creating something new or fresh. Great ideas are just that. Great.

Use them, repeat them. Learn from them. Don’t excuse yourself from them.

“He/She is just lucky”

Yep, and I’m not. So why would I do that when I just don’t have the same amount of “luck”?

If “luck” was the magic ingredient to achieve anything worthwhile then why indeed would you commit to do anything?

You make your own luck. Put any notion of “luck” aside. Create and achieve. Do and learn. It’s the best way.

“I tried my best”

Well, sort of.

This at first glance  does seem an unlikely excuse. However, often when you cut a little deeper,  He/She is really saying [with a shrug of the shoulders] …”I knew I wouldn’t win/succeed, so why put in 100% or try at all?”

This is a sneaky excuse. It masquerades the fact that you wimped, not tried. It’s a let me off the hook type of response to something which you had no or little interest in doing. Have You ever used this one before?

“You win some, You lose some”

Except I seem to lose a hell of a lot more than I win.

This is a flow on from the previous excuse. You’re really saying “don’t blame me for things not turning out the way that you wanted”.

It usually shows a lack of care and/or commitment. You will use this when whatever you are faced with, is not seen by you as a priority. Though it will probably be a priority for someone else who is depending on You [to deliver].

What other “Great Excuses” do You know of? Feel free to share your thoughts … and the post, if you like it enough.

** This post was refreshed April 8 2015

Be good to Yourself

David

Motivator. Life Coach. Listener.

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