Mark Twain once wrote, “There are a thousand excuses for failure, but never a good reason.”
After being in the fitness industry for the last 17 years, I must have heard at least a thousand different excuses for not training consistently, for not eating properly, for “trying”, but not getting any results, or for not even starting at all. I’m telling you, I could fill up an “excuse encyclopedia” with all the lame excuses I’ve heard!
Do you know what an excuse really is?
An excuse is when people rationalize (“ration lies”) to themselves to uphold their current belief systems, to avoid taking risks, to avoid the fear of failure or making a fool of themselves, to justify failure to take action, to provide explanation for why something “cannot be done,” to let themselves off the hook to escape personal responsibility and accountability or to avoid the hard work and “growing pains” it takes to achieve personal change and success.
If you’re a chronic excuse maker, you will never reach a high level of success in your fitness endeavors or in life until you break this habit.
Fortunately, there is hope, and help for “excusitis,” and it’s called “THE EXCUSE BUSTER.” It’s a simple method that I’ve used and you can use too to squash those rationalizations once and for all. Continued…
Filed under: Psychology
