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5 Proven Excuses That Will Make Your Life Hard

Thoughts You Need to Overcome if You Want to Achieve What You Want

It’s difficult to accept you are making excuses that will make your life hard. Your excuses will prevent you from creating the life you want.

You are not alone. People make excuses all the time and rarely know they are making them. If you can identify your excuses, you can overcome them and achieve better results.

An excuse is a reason given to defend or justify an action that has not led to an outcome you want.

When you pay more attention to your words, you will heighten your awareness of your reasons why you did not get an outcome you wanted.

Common Reasons Why People Make Excuses

People often make excuses because:

• They want to find a way out or get off something they know they should or shouldn’t have done.
• They avoid taking responsibility.
• They lack self-confidence.
• They are not motivated to do what’s required.
• They compare themselves to others.
• They have limiting beliefs about who they are and what they are capable of.
• They are afraid of doing the wrong thing or making mistakes.

Your excuses will prevent you from living your potential, which means you won’t become the person you know you can be.

5 Proven Excuses That Will Make Your Life Hard

Even though everyone makes excuses, there are excuses that have a greater negative impact. Here are five proven excuses that will make your life hard, which means you won’t achieve what you want, if you do not overcome them.

1. Life is unfair or difficult. This excuse suggests you believe life is happening to you. Holding onto this excuse or belief will cause you to let external events or circumstances dictate what is possible for you.
2. Now is not a good time. This excuse reveals you think everything has to be right or easy before you take on something new. There will never be a perfect time or the right time to take a risk.
3. I don’t have the motivation. This means you don’t have a strong reason to do something. It also shows you lack commitment and the willingness to take action.
4. I’ve already failed a lot, and it’s too late now. Everyone has experienced failure, some more than others. If you have a fear of failure, you will not fully commit to what you want. This excuse will cause you to give up on your dreams.
5. I don’t have the resources others have. Resources can include money, support or technology. It’s never about the resources you lack — it’s whether you are resourceful or not.

Other Excuses That Will Prevent You from Achieving What You Want

• I’m not educated or qualified.
• I feel stuck and I don’t know if I have what it takes.
• I’m too old or too young.
• I don’t know how (to do something).
• I’m not educated or qualified.
• My life is fine the way it is.
• I like the way I am and don’t want to change.
• I’ll feel embarrassed if I fail.
• I don’t know what to do.
• Change is hard, and no one will support me.

Things You Can Do to Stop Making Excuses

To live the life you want, stop making excuses. Here are things you can do to stop making excuses.

1. Invest in yourself and your personal growth.
2. Stop comparing yourself to others.
3. Take personal responsibility for your actions.
4. Have greater clarity for what you want by defining a vision for your life and setting goals.
5. Focus on what you have and what you can do, instead of what you don’t have and what you think you cannot do.
6. Take new actions consistently.
7. Embrace failure and mistakes as part of the journey to get to where you want to be.
8. Find a mentor or coach or have an accountability partner.
9. Stop blaming and complaining about why you are not getting the results you want.
10. Ask for help if you are not achieving what you want.

Final Thoughts

Behind every excuse is a belief. If you do not eliminate your excuses, you will continue to create the results you have until now. Nothing will change.

If you overcome your excuses, you will develop more self-confidence and create more success. This means you will feel better about yourself and the life you are living.

Action Step: Review the goals or dreams you have given up on. Determine the excuses you have made for giving up on them. Commit to doing what’s required to overcome your excuses so you can reach your goals or dreams.

Question: What are other proven excuses that will make your life hard?

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