Excuses are for the inadequate

Don’t make excuses about why you are not living as successfully as you wish you were. Successful people don’t do that. We visualize what we want to achieve, what we want to be. Then we work towards making that a reality. But what happens is, challenges come our way. We have setbacks. Things hinder us. We get blocked. An unsuccessful person will throw their hands in the air in defeat and say, “It can’t be done.” A successful person, however, will acclimate these setbacks into their overall view and plan and find a suitable alternative and adjustment. They will use them as opportunities to use their creativity to find ways around these obstacles. Success, in a lot of ways, is defined by one’s ability to find solutions to the problems that get in the way of the achievement of our goals without resorting to assigning an excuse to why it cannot be done.

Accept the possibility of failure

One thing that people do is, they use excuses as shields against feelings of inadequacy. People have an idea of what they want to achieve but do not feel as though they have what it takes to do it. They assume they will fail, so rather than set themselves up for a failure, they find the easiest out they can find and they make an excuse. Successful people don’t get that way by looking for these easy outs for a risky venture. They become successful by accepting the possibility of failure and by working hard to prevent it. If they looked for excuses, they would not allow for the possibility of success. Imagine and visualize what it means to you to be successful, then find ways around the obstacles and blocks that stand in your way of it. –Jim Larsen