We must have noticed that the one who has got plenty of reasons to say ‘why’ is the one with medicore achievements.While on ther side the great achievers hardly do make any excuses.They fight with whatever they have and they believe in themselves.When you start to make excuse regularly it becomes a habit and you wil begin to stick with it.He relies on the excuse more than himself and doesn’t stop himself to tell others why he is not going forward.He uses those excuses time after time and they become embedded deeper within his subconscious mind.Thoughts, positive or negative grow stronger when fertilized with constant repetition.Even the victim knows at the initial time that his alibi is more or less a lie.But with frequent repetition he becomes more convinced and believes that those alibi were the real reason for his not being the success he should be.
There are several forms of excuses that people make but the worst types of disease are:
1>Health excusitis 2>Intelligence excusitis
3>Age excusitis 4>Luck excusitis
Now lets learn how we can protect ourselves from these four common ailments.
1> But my health isn’t good:-Let me tell you that something is physically wrong with every body.Looking and looking for illness often actually produces illness.Lets start to live by saying “I’m going to live until i die and i’m not going to get life and death confused.While im on this earth i’m going to live my life fullest .Why be only half alive?Every minute a person spends worrying about dying is just one minute that fellow might as well have been dead.
Four things you can do to lick health excusitis.
1.Refuse to talk about your health.Talking about bad health is like putting fertilizer on weeds.The more you talk about it the worse it seems to get.Yeah! you may get sympathy but one doesn’t get respect and loyalty by being a chronic complainer.
2.Be genuinely greatful that your health is as good as it is.Instead of complaining about ‘not feeling good’ it’s far better to be glad you are as healthy as you are.
3.Refuse to worry about your health.Just make self control.
4.Remind yourself often,”it’s better to wear out than rust out”.
2>”But you’ve got to have brains to succeed
Most of us make two basic errors with respect to intelligence
1>We underestimate our own brain power
2>We overestimate the other fellow’s brain power
Because of this errors many people sell themselves short.They fail to tackle challenging situations because it ‘takes a brain’.But along comes the fellow who isn’t concerned about intelligence and he gets the job.
What rally matters is not how much intelligence you have but how you use what you do have.Let me add a great lesson that einstein has taught us.He says it is more important to use your mind to think than to use it as a warehouse for facts.i.e the ability to know how to get information is more important than using the mind as a garage for facts.
Three ways to cure intelligence excusitis:
1>Never underestimate your own intelligence and never overestimate the intelligence of others.
2>Remind yourself”My attitudes are more important than my intelligence.
3>Ask yourself,”Am i using my mental ability to make history or am i using it merely to record history made by others?”
3.”It’s no use i’m too old or too young”:-
The failure disease of never being the right age comes in two forms the “i’m too old”, “i’m too young”
How to handle age excusitis:-
1>Look at your present age positively.Think i’m still young not “i’m too old”.
2>Compute how much productive time you have left.Remember a person age 30 still has 80% of his productive life ahead of him.Life is actually longer than most people think.
3>Invest future time in doing what you really want to do.Stop thinking “I should have started years ago”.”That’s failure thinking.Instead think “i’m going to start now ,my best years are ahead of me”.
4.”But my case is different,i attract bad luck”.
Yet a single day passes that you don’t hear someone blame his problems on “bad luck”.And its a rarely day that you do not hear someone attribute another person’s success to “good luck”.
conquer luck excusitis in two ways:-
1>Accept the law of cause and effect.Evaluate the person whom you find has “good luck “.You’ll find out not luck but prepration,planning and success producing thinking preceeded his good fortune.
2>Don’t be a wishful thinker:-Success comes from doing those things and mastering those principles that produce success.Don’t count on luck,instead just concentrate on developing those qualities in yourself that will make you a winner.
“The magic of thinking big”: David schwartz.
