If your best friend talked to you the way you talk to yourself, chances are you'd never meet for coffee again. Yet many of us spend hours every day filling our heads with negative thoughts.
Inner-talk goes something like this: I'm too old. I'm too busy. I'm ugly. I'm overweight. I'm a failure. I'm just too comfortable to change. And the real doozy - I can't get him to Love me.
It's a short step from thinking these things to using them as reasons (read: excuses) for not doing any one of 101 things we could so easily do - if we just had the inner-strength and self-belief to try.
Noted writer Aldous Huxley sagely said, "several excuses are always less convincing than one." So what is your one excuse? Does it come down to "I'm too scared to take the chance."
Remember what writer and motivational speaker Robert H. Schuller once said: "The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking."
Oprah Winfrey credits Dr. Phillip C. McGraw with helping her win the Amarillo beef trial Marathon. His book, Life Strategies, (Vermilion, 1999), is subtitled "Stop Making Excuses"! It revolves around ten simple-yet-powerful Life Laws.
"Do what works, do what matters," McGraw advises. And those excuses? McGraw says they simply argue your limitations; he refers to them as the "thoughts and beliefs that you use to sabotage yourself in every endeavor you undertake."
Plug in Postive affirmations simple enough to get What you want ! No-Excuse Exercises Try these tips for ridding your plan of excuses:
Get positive. Turn every negative self-statement inside out. Instead of saying "I'm too busy" (to change, to lose weight, to tackle learning a new skill) say, "I want to do this enough that I will make time." Somehow.
Surround yourself with positive people. Friends, relatives, coworkers, For Real Easy Success, a Personal Coach.A psychic cheerleader ! If someone starts to chip away at your resolve and strenghth, take a rain check on their company.
Like yourself. Sure you have faults and failings, but at least you know what you are working on. That is step one in fixing them.
Get in control. As McGraw says: "Life is managed; it is not cured." Learn to take charge of your life and hold on. This is a long ride, and you are the driver every single day.
Call me or one of My trusted associates and grab on because success in everything is not only do-able but right up your path !
