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How Your Excuses Define Your Success
Your willingness to argue against your dreams is killing you.
Every day we give ourselves a pep talk, a reason to be working on a thing. Those who are achieving their dreams accept the that pep talk and get to work. Those ignore the pep talk, or argue with it, fail to succeed.
The ‘winners’ may have an excuse, but they are focused on why the pep talk can’t be ignored.
“Just write one post” is met with “or you’ll fail” or “to keep the streak going.”
The ‘loser’ sounds more like:
“Just write one post” is followed by “but I’m tired” or “but I have too much to do.”
The good news is, you can reframe your pep talks and kill your excuses!
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Make The Request Too Easy To Refute
When you have something to do, how you phrase it or the intention behind it can be a dealbreaker.
If your task is “Get 10 New Followers”, an ambiguous goal which is out of your control, you can come up with excuses to not do it, or just get brain lock and do nothing.
The secret is in specificity and clarity.
