Excuses excuses excuses...

Read the title of this post again. Excuses. That is all that stands between what you have and what you want. We do it all the time. We have have excuses for everything.

The formula is simple, if <insert excuse here> had not happened, then <insert goal here> would have happened.  Or I can't <insert goal here> because <insert excuse here>

If only this hadn't happened, I would have made it. Or if this person hadn't done that thing I would have won.  I can't go to that school because it's too expensive. I could never do that job because  I am too stupid to learn Calculus. I'm too Irish, Chinese, black, purple or green to do that thing. I'm too poor, too short, too young,too old, bald or ugly.

It's all nonsense.Hogwash. B.S..

You can do whatever you want to do. You just have to want it badly enough not to let anything get in your way. Your desire has to be great enough that you will move forward with laser focus and destroy all obstacles that arrive. If you have a high enough level of commitment, there is no obstacle that you can not go over under around or through.

Saying that you cannot do a thing because where you are currently in life is the polar opposite of the thing you wish to achieve is a flat out lie. Some of the poorest people in the world have become the wealthiest. Some of the least well educated in their younger years have become some of the most learned and best educators of men in their later years. Many people with physical handicaps learn to perform feats of strength and athletics that most normal people would never dream of.

Are you perfectly happy with your life exactly the way it is? If you are the one person in ten thousand that can honestly say you are, stop reading this and go do something else.

But if you are part of the majority group who has unmet goals, make a list of the things that are keeping you from meeting these goals. Write down all the things that make your goals "impossible".
Then ask yourself how you could go under, over, around or through these excuses. Begin, one at a time, terminating with extreme prejudice the things that are holding you back. If you are truly motivated, you will find a way to turn any perceived weakness into a strength.

The truth is that anything you have not accomplished yet is a thing that has not mattered enough to you to make sure that it happened. You have not cared enough to put in the time and energy required to make it happen. It was not important enough to you brush aside any obstacle, challenge or hindrance to meeting the goal.

And any time that anyone asks you about a goal and your reply is anything other than what is stated in the previous paragraph, you are lying, directly, to both yourself and the person making the inquiry. Excuses are lies plain and simple. We do what is important to us. We do not do what is not. We talk about what we would like to be important. But once it becomes important we do it and not a moment before.

Stop lying to yourself and putting the blame on life and others in it. You and you alone are responsible for all of your successes and failures. Other people may add to or detract from your efforts, but it is ultimately your efforts that decide your results.