EXCUSES THAT PREVENT PEOPLE FROM EVER ACHIEVING SUCCESS.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.
William Arthur Ward

People make excuses for a whole host of unrealized objectives and blame external factors for their lack of success. But, are external factors really the culprit or self-sabotage? There's a maxim that is telling: if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.

In order to grow as a person, to create better circumstances, and to achieve a higher level of success and abundance, it all starts with... YOU.
Making excuses also known as rationalizing is a loser's game. Winners may analyze but never rationalize. Losers always have a book full of excuses to tell you why they could not. We hear excuses like:

#1. It's not easy

Huh? Your own attitude writes your own script. Usually, it's not that something is actually harder for one person over another, it is how that person chooses to view the task and approach it. A person who buys this line of reasoning may need to look at his or her coping/life skills. No two people learn in the same fashion so harder or easier aren't as relevant as one's own attitude. What can make almost anything seem harder is attitude. Everything has been once hard before turning round to become easy. It is all about an attempt.


#2. I don't have enough time

Often and all, you hear people saying, "I don’t have enough time.”  Of course this comes from the individual who watches two hours of television a day. Especially nowadays that BBM is the order of the day. You have the exact same amount of time as everyone else.  Your lack of time is most likely a lack of focus, a lack of priorities, a lack of passion, a lack of discipline, and a lack of direction.  You are lacking something alright, but it’s not time.

“Your time” is how you show value.  If you spend 40 hours a week at work, then that tells me that you value having a job.  If you only spend five minutes getting dressed in the morning, then that tells me that you don’t value how you look.  Time is the currency that shows what you value; if you’re not giving something “time,” it is because you don’t value it.  Plain and simple!

Let’s be serious for a moment.  It’s not that you don’t have the time, it’s that you don’t feel like “taking the time.”  But at least be honest about it; I can respect the person who says, “I don’t want to workout, I’d rather watch television!”

#3. I don't have enough money

I don't have enough money to start this project or work at hand. How I wish I have the financial resources? When you say, “I don’t have enough money,” what you are really saying is that “I don’t want it badly enough.”  You’re saying that “I don’t prize it enough;” you’re saying, “It’s not that important.”  You’re saying, “I want it to be given to me.”

Who are the rich today, but the poor of yesterday?  You don’t need money to succeed; you need determination, and an unrelenting attitude!  With these items you will gather all the funds you require.

You can always find a way to get something when you’re determined to have it.

#4. I'm not educated

You say you don't have the required level of education. Huh? But do you that; Walt Disney dropped out of high school.  Thomas Edison, the inventor of the everyday light-bulb had to join the railroad at 12 after receiving most of his education from home-schooling. Tom Anderson, who co-founded MySpace, dropped out of high school.  Kevin Rose the founder of Digg.com, was a college drop-out.  Dave Thomas the billionaire who founded the Wendy’s fast-food chain, dropped out of high school at 15.  Dustin Moskovitz is the co-founder of Facebook and a college dropout. What else do you have to say?

#5. I Don’t Know How to do it.

What an excuse!  If you haven’t “learned,” of course you don’t know how!  This may very well be the worse of the four excuses.

It is practice that makes perfect.  What you don’t know, you can always learn! It is a free world. You can learn whatever you feel like learning, if only you can give your mind to it.

#6. I can't do this.

In most cases, "I can't" really means "I don't want to" or "I won't." Barring physical inability because of health limitations or mental inability because of mental illness, most people, with sustained effort, can do most things. Are you allowing your beliefs about yourself to self-sabotage you?

#7. The economy is bad

The economy of my country is dwindling day and night. There is nothing that will strive in this economy. When I try to invest, I lose my money. There is inflation, currency depreciation, shares devaluation etc. You are right all these factors are against all the citizen yet some people are flourishing. It depends on your perspective. Get into action. Since some people are making it you too can.

#8. I'm handicapped

If anybody could not make it,Hellen Keller should be the one. Born deaf and blind yet she designed her life. Think of Yinka Ayefele (a musician from Ibadan, Nigeria), Steve Wonder, Booker T. Washington etc, they're handicapped but their names will last long as time endures.

#9. I'm too old.

Colonel sanders, at age of 65, with a beat-up car and a $100 check from social security, realize he had to do something. This man is the face of KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken). He single-handedly set up this fast food. Who are you to complain of too old then? Wake up from your slumber, you are still agile. Do something

#10. Other excuses

These are; I'm unlucky, I'm born under the wrong stars, I'm not smart enough, I'm not good looking, I don't have connections, my parent are poor etc. When you try to google search, you will find at least a billionaire making it in respect of your excuses. For instance, Wikipedia recorded Oprah Winfrey as someone born into poverty but today a leading billionaire.

In Closing

Let me encourage you to stop making excuses today; know that you can do whatever you want!  You have the ability, and you have the power to turn your dream into a reality.  So the question is, “How desirous you are about success?”


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To your ultimate success, MA.