No Excuses Allowed
You can't excuse yourself out of a pickle that you behaved yourself into.
Mark Twain once wrote that, “There are a thousand excuses for every failure but never a good reason.” Knuckleheads have developed an unequaled gift for making excuses and thus murdering their own potential.
If you experiment with excuses, lies and exaggerations, it is probably because you find the truth inadequate.
The tragedy of the average knucklehead is that they have become dependent on the deception, false belief, and unfortunately ease of use associated with making excuses.
I know of no enemy more insidious or vicious than excuses. It’s an enemy that poses a clear and present danger to your future.
Excuses are to a knucklehead, what spin is to a politician – a clever yet lame way to pass away bad news or some undesirable reality. The truth is, no one is buying and we all know you’re full of beans.
You can’t excuse yourself out of a pickle that you behaved yourself into. Don’t lie or BS people with some sorry excuse for why you didn’t deliver the intended results. Trust me, they see right through it, which makes you look like an even bigger knucklehead.
Excuses are personality defects; the dirty ring around the collar of your performance, which carry the distinct whiff of mediocrity.
Few things make a knucklehead more uncomfortable than being confronted with the reality of their own sorry excuses. The excuse of using excuses is a behaviorally transmitted disease that inhibits the inherent potential of anyone that comes in contact with them.
So why do knuckleheads become such easy prey for an excuse when bringing home the bacon was what was expected of them?
Why do they continue to rely on such lame rational, which undermines their potential and destroys their reputation?
Why do they continue to dine on this junk food of behavior?
Why? Because they’re knuckleheads! That’s why!
Knuckleheads flip the bird to their own potential when they offer up an excuse, and it’s a bloody shame as far too many people demonstrate this reckless behavior pattern.
The tipping point of success resides on the other side of excuses – responsibility!
4 Responses to “No Excuses Allowed”
Scott Lovingood July 18th, 2009 at 12:46 am
We also get lots of help from our “friends” who help provide excuses if we somehow run out of them. Beware friends who tell you all the “reasons” you can’t be successful.
Take control, be purposeful, be passionate, be profitable. Create wealth in the world by giving value to others.
No excuses should be tattooed on the inside of our eyelids so we can see it every night
Great post.
Judith Ellis August 18th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
This is a beautiful and thoughtful blog. Thank you.
Allison August 27th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Excellent points indeed! People assume that their reality is the only reality. They assume that they know what is true, and that if it were true, they’d experience it.
What else is interesting, is that people assume they never need expert help. They assume they know all there is to know, and they assume they should be able to figure it all out on their own. This is the human default.
Allison
Dedra September 20th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
This again is a great reminder of how we as a society often redefine words and explain them away. There is a saying that goes,” Excuses are monuments of nothingness.
Those who often use them, seldom amount to nothing.” While that is great and true, sometimes people get into the habit of doing what they are doing (with support from their environment like Scott mentioned above) and don’t recognize their words as excuses or the root of their problem.
I go through cycles where I am really on it and something shifts, I get comfortable and then I see where the mediocrity and excuses (I say good explanation) comes in.
I also now see how it hinders me and make the most effort to be different. Thanks for the reminder.