Check Your Excuses
Things don’t always go right. For you, for me, for anyone.
In fact, the very best case scenario might be that most things will go wrong but a few of the right things, the big things, will eventually go right, probably after many failed attempts.
Given the reality, then, that we’ll likely spend the majority of our lives banging our heads against one wall or another, the least (and most helpful thing) we can do is to develop a productive mindset regarding out state of near-perpetual frustration and failure.
For most of us, myself definitely included, our first and most delicious reaction when something goes wrong is to blame someone else.
It doesn’t much matter who, it doesn’t even need to be a person! It might be your annoying colleague, your spouse, your neighbour who borrowed your leaf blower two years ago and never gave it back, your cat, the government, climate change, the media or even all of the above!
Ahhhhhh, doesn’t that feel better now?
Of course it does, that’s the whole point! But does it help us improve our current situation or do better next time?
If you didn’t get the hint, the answer is no. No, it does not.
Excuses, while an effective temporary salve, do us little good in the long run, and the sooner we can eliminate…
