NO MORE EXCUSES

In last month's Trail magazine I came across this article. Obviously I was intrigued by it.  Being that I wanted this blog to be "No more excuses"   it was already taken.    When I first came across the article I figured it would be about making yourself do A, B & C and to stop making excuses for sitting on your butt.  I was wrong.  KIND OF.   It was about doing A, B & C because these are the excuses you probably have and here is why they do not work and the solution.  It was a great article, yet more than enjoying the article  I LOVED the concept or idea of the article.  It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes,

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech

We can come up with a MILLION EXCUSES everyday why we can't do the hard things. The things that take discipline.  The things that test us as human beings. The things that make us break old habits we dislike about ourselves.   Making ourselves do these things, however, is what STRENGTHENS us.  It is not making one strategic choice and then forgetting about strategy the rest the month.  It is about a MILLION strategic choices put together day after day that brings us a result we want.  We must ask ourselves what it is we want.  Make categories for home, family, church, self and whatever other category you want, then figure out what excuses we can come up with to NOT do those things.  Then think of the solution the reason those excuses will not work.   THE REASON WHY YOU WILL BE STRONGER THAN THE EXCUSE!!!!  If it is true we "Prepare to fail when we fail to prepare,"  the opposite must be true as well.  Just as the picture shows, doing this is hard, uncomfortable and at times we may feel like we are getting knocked around a little. However one day we will find ourselves stronger and a master of ourselves. What better gift could we have than that?  

From this moment let's do as DAN RATHER did during his career .  Get a piece of paper and write on it "IS WHAT I'M DOING AT THIS MOMENT HELPING ME TO ACHIEVE MY GOAL."  Laminate it.  Put it in your pocket daily.  Make your choices around the answer to it.  Make the answer a resounding YES!!!!  TODAY, TOMORROW & FOREVER!!!!

                   NO MORE EXCUSES   

               EMBRACE THE GRIND:)