Take Charge Of Your Life (Stop Making Excuses)

We’ve all made excuses before and some of us continue to make them, every now and then. Why do we make excuses? Well, we make them to get out of doing things we don’t want to do. We make them because we are lazy and we make them because we don’t want to step out side of our comfort zone.

Our excuses while they may seem harmless, actually take us further and further away from our intended goal. Not to mention, we will end up missing out on opportunities. If you are ready to stop making excuses, here are some things you may want to think about doing:

1). Stop focusing on past failures. Beating yourself up and focusing on the past is only going to make you feel worse. Instead of beating yourself up, learn from your past, so you can do things better in the present and future.

2). Take responsibility for your mistakes. When you take responsibility for your failures, you’ll be able to focus on not repeating those mistakes and learn from them.

3). Pick yourself up after you fall. You must pick yourself up and move on; if you don’t, you will always be in that dark place.

4). Focus on your strengths and then build on them. When you make excuses, you become negative, and that causes you to focus only on your shortcomings, and how in adequate you may or may not be. This will leave you feeling defeated and disheartened.

5). Identify your weaknesses and work on them. Be honest about your weaknesses, so you can turn them into strips.

6). Stop comparing yourself to others. You are a unique individual and so is your journey. That’s why it’s not healthy to compare yourself to other people.

Take Away: Making excuses may be a bad habit for you, but remember ALL bad habits can be broken. Be patient, stay optimistic, and keep pushing forward.