There is no such thing as a ‘good excuse’.
Your excuses are just ‘your stuff’ coming out. Your inner lies, your made up beliefs, your learned behavior, your fears and your doubts talking to you. It is a way for you to justify your actions for not doing what you truly want to do!
Excuses are negative energy just bringing you down. They are holding you back, and they are wasting your time.
So instead I challenge you. The next time you use an excuse, and you recognize that you are using it, ask yourself… what excuse am I using (this is your bad habit), why am I making up an excuse at all (this is your fear or insecurity), and what is it that I really want to do (this is the real you talking!)?
Turn this feeling way up… sit down with it, don’t judge it, just feel it. Are you angry, sad, fearful, afraid? Just let that feeling be, then let it go… and then JUST GO DO IT. What ever IT was that you wanted to do in the beginning.
Let me give you an example of someone who wants to start their own program, but makes excuse after excuse to put it off. It’s not the right time, I don’t have the right resources, I don’t have enough money, I need a better plan. (You get the picture, you know cause you’ve been there too!) Those excuses are just a fear, a worry, an anxiety creeping up on you. They aren’t the truth! You and I both know that.
So sit down with that feeling. What am I making excuses for? Am I scared of failure? Do I not think I’m smart enough? Am I afraid of the hardships or challenges? Am I trying to perfect it? Feel everything you are feeling, write it all out if you have to, let it all flow out. Cry, be angry, get frustrated, work through it all, then let it all go!
Let it go. Realize that this is not your truth, this is something you have learned. This is something your EGO made up to try and protect you from getting hurt. But the truth is you are hurting yourself. You are stopping yourself from doing the things you really want to do.
So know that this is just your ego talking to you, then just let it go. And then just GO DO IT! Do not have the regret of not doing the things you want to do! Go embrace yourself! Go live your life! Go be in this world the person you were meant to be and free your spirit of any lies it may hold onto with no excuses.