The
purpose of the 7 Daily Nuggets is to teach us what we need to know to live a
prosperous life; the things that we may not have learned or are not currently
learning in church, school, home or at work. Let’s apply what we learn here and
share these nuggets with others. We make a living by what we get; we make a
life by what we give. Be a giver in a world of takers.
Excuses are useless, results
are priceless!
What we
think are valid reasons are often excuses in disguise. Excuses come from
negative self-talk.
Turn
excuses into reasons. Turn excuses into positive energy to accomplish something
worthwhile.
Excusitis
is a failure disease and it can be contagious. They symptoms can be subtle and difficult
to self-diagnose. Learn to diagnose and cure yourself from the number one
failure disease.
Pay close
attention to your thoughts and what you say to yourself and to those around
you.
Here are
7 common excuses and how to self-diagnose and to get rid of it:
1.
I
don’t have time. No one does. What are
you so busy about? We all fill our lives with frivolous things. We have to make
time. Focus on what matters most. Distractions lead to ditches. The only way to
have time is to invest time in something that allows us to get our time back.
2.
I
don’t have money. Stop spending money
and start investing money. What percentage of your income are you investing in yourself?
If you are not investing at least 3% of your income to get better, you are
falling behind. Pay for the right information. The only way to get what we want
is to invest first; be it time or money. Do you know where your money is going?
Do you have a budget and follow it?
3.
Money
is not important to me. This is a big
one that I often hear. Those that say that money is not important to them
usually have no money. The funny thing is that they are working for money in a
job they don’t even like. Money is important to everyone. Master the basics of
personal finance if you want to avoid a financial crash. For most people money
is their master instead of being their slave. Flip around; money is a great
slave.
4.
I
can’t do it. If you think you can or can’t
either way you are right. Anything worthwhile is difficult are first. Our
beliefs become our reality. Get the right information to change your thinking
and your beliefs.
5.
I
don’t know what to do. Ask for help. Get
started. Whatever you are doing, likely others have done before you. Mastery
comes from repetition. A genius has to repeat 50 times a task before really
knowing it; the normal person 200 times. Have to humility to say you don’t
know. Faking it is a lame excuse.
6.
I
am not smart enough. Don’t have a formal
education/training? The only true education is self-education. Go to the
library. Invest in great books. Start your own library. Just about all houses
worth over half one million dollars have a library in them. Reading the right
books and associating with the right people will get you anywhere you want to
go. First you have to define where you want to go. Then find people that have
been there. Have the humility to ask them and you will get some priceless
advice. Follow through and do what they recommend you to do. Just do it!
7.
I
don’t want to change. Take
a close look into yourself. Change is the only constant in our lives. Learn how
to deal with change. You can never take your old self to a bright new future.
We all need to change and grow. If you are not green and growing you are ripe
and rotting. The only way to deal with change is to keep learning. Go over the
two knobs keeping you being the same; the TV and the house door knobs.
We can either make excuses or make a
difference but we cannot make both.
Be blessed
and be a blessing to others.
Carlos Fontana, President of Phalanx
Co-author of the book Follow to Lead (The 7 Principles to Being
a Great Follower)
Author of the book PRICELESS (Sixty-Six Simple Stories of
Reflection, Love, and Legacy)
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