“The girl who can’t dance says the band can’t play.”
Yiddish Proverb
Are you one of those who will fabricate an excuse and then use it as a justification for your lack of drive, or for reasons of shame, or simply because you are just lazy? Thank your stars if you are not one of those. Unfortunately, there are so many who blame everything else for their shortcomings, except themselves. Life is complex, it surely is, yet that does not give you the right to blame life’s complexities as excuses for not addressing simpler aspects of your day to day life.
More so, our focus on excuses, rather than on remedies, is worrying. Why is this? Well, it implies that you are not taking responsibility for your life. You need to take responsibility for your life, and like everything else, this will require that you make the choice to do so. You may choose to blame everything else for your misfortunes, but that is plainly not the right path to follow, or you can take responsibility, which is the correct path to follow. We should also, I think, in the spirit of radical honesty, not readily entertain other people’s excuses because I am convinced that we encourage this evil by entertaining and accepting these for courtesy's sake.
Jordan Belfort himself says that the only thing standing between you and your goals, are the nonsensical excuses you convince yourself of as to why you can’t achieve it. Many people convince themselves and others that they cannot do or achieve something – let’s say, quit smoking. I say it is not a matter of cannot, it is a matter of not wanting to because if you want to, you will not create excuses. You will simply start doing it. Let us take responsibility for that which we failed to do right and limit our excuses to only those instances where an excuse is absolutely due.
One thing that we like to abuse,
is the practice of offering an excuse.
Do you offer an excuse for every misfortune?
Come on, with such an attitude you will never win!
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