How addictive are excuses?

         Can you go a day without an excuse? An hour?

         What’s your favorites?

         Number one is:Time-Not enough time. You got that one?

         Or too much time so procrastination wins!

         Then there is fear-the -False Evidence Appearing Real:

         “If they find out I am Lazy, irresponsible, stupid & wrong, careless, forgetful, I need an excuse.

         You are not any of those labels you are an ever growing, often learning, free spirit with choices, unique like everyone else.                                                                       Excuses are there to keep you from owning your greatness.                    You may believe your excuse, I don’t and as with most excuses no one else believes them either. 

         There are excuses that really kill us.

                  “One drink for the road is OK”

                  “I don’t need that physical, I am OK”

                  “Everyone is doing it.”

         There are plausible seeming REAL excuses.

         These are the true stories, though excuses. For example the story of the worried mom whose teenager was on her first date and came home an hour after curfew. “I was worried sick about you,” Mom said with a nervousness in her voice.

         “I’m sorry mom.” Said the daughter, “But I couldn’t get the condom on.” That might have been more information than mom wanted.

         There are great excuses on line-a plethora to add to your creativity. 

         Astrology excuse-Were you born under a bad sign, “Virgo can’t do anything unless it’s perfect is my excuse.”

         Sex-“I’m a girl and we’re bad at math.” “That’s the way my dad did it.”

         Age-“At my age I am lucky to remember anything.” “I’m too new at this.”

         Generics:“I was never good at ‘blah, blah blah’.

         “I am not a technical person

         “My parents were ‘blah, blah, blah’.

         “I’m left-handed, hard of hearing, disabled, over/under qualified.

         Do you want greatness in your life?

         Are your values motivating you or are your excuses and a chronic case of the disease of tomorrow keeping your life as one of ‘good enough?’

         The bottom line is No one cares about excuses except the one making them. It is habitual. A reaction to fear of failure and a belief you are not being good enough

Here is a Call to act-You are good enough without your excuse!~

Here is what can you do?

         Keep your agreements and only make agreements you are willing and able to keep.

         Pay attention to what you say.

         Get help-join EEE Eradicate Erase Excuses

         Commit to your values.

         Breathe out the excuse-Just Let the excuse go-we don’t care. Get   on with being present.

         If you want to be great, not just good enough, there are no excuses, it takes paying attention.