Excuses No More – The Way To A Life Of Abundance

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I always have the belief that everyone have the potential to achieve a successful life filled with abundance. Even though everyone have that potential in them, they do not know how to unleash them and they stay stuck in life.

They also practice self sabotaging acts to prevent their maximum potential from shining through. Is it even possible? Who will want to stay in poverty, be mediocre or unhealthy? Nobody wants that to happen themselves but their actions speak other wise.

The Worst Self Sabotaging Habit

Have you ever given excuses such as you lack the time to do something, or you lack the money to be rich or you are too young or too old to do something? I bet most of you do and I admit that I had made the same excuses too.

So why do we create those excuses? We create excuses to help us escape our fear of unknown, change or failure. We fear the unknown because we avoid things that we are not familiar with. We are fearful of change because we are not able to predict what will happen(we love to predict things accurately). We avoid failure because it does not feel good and it make us look extremely bad or stupid.

These excuses are our ways to escape from those fear. However giving excuses denies our personal growth. The first step towards growth is to be aware of your faults. You can only correct it when you are aware of it.

However when you are faced with what you have to do in order to make the changes, you create some excuses for yourself to stop yourself from taking action. This whole cycle keeps on repeating and you will find yourself stuck and underachieving in life.

How To Kick Excuses Out Of Your Life

Every time when we come out with excuses, there are 3 steps we should take to help us out kick it out of our life.

1. Question yourself whether your excuse is 100% true?
2. Find evidence to show that your excuse is false.
3. Reframe your excuse and take action now.

Here are some of the common excuses that we frequently use.

Lack of time

There are lots of people who complain that they lack the time to achieve the things they want in life. (let us take earning money for example) But how true is that? Everyone have the same 24 hours but why is it that there are people who achieve much more in the same amount of time.

It is because you are not time challenged, you are priority challenged. You chose to watch that TV show instead of working on your side business. You chose to talk for hours instead of thinking of how to run your business more efficiently. It is all a matter of choosing the right priority. If you are complaining that you lack the time to achieve, I would like to remind you that time is of abundance and what you are lacking is the ability to prioritize.

Lack of money

This is one of the excuses that I am guilty of. I always think that it takes money to make money and I lack the capital to run a successful business. The regular use of this excuse cause me to stay in a rut and failed to achieve anything. Whenever I have a business idea, my mind would whisper to me that I lack the money to achieve that. After hearing my own excuse, I quit before I even started.

I noticed this unhealthy pattern and I knew that this pattern is not beneficial for me. Right now whenever this excuse pop out in my head, I will tell myself if I need the money, I will go out there and find it using any ways which are ethical. The result is that I stumbled upon internet marketing which do not need as much cash compared to brick and mortar businesses.

I’m too young/old

There are people who think that they are too young or too old to start a business. Is it 100% true that you must reach a certain age before you can start running a business and rake in big money? Nope, there are no age limit and the thought of we are too young/old is a self imposed rule upon ourselves. Instead of thinking that you are too young, reframe it as being young means you are energetic, dynamic and you are able to look at things in a different view. If you think you are too old, why not reframe your thoughts and think that being old means that you are wiser and your experience will be helpful to you.

I had seen young entrepreneurs who are successful. My buddy Glen Allsopp is a great example. (Check out the last interview I did with him) He is already earning a 5 figure income and he is just 20 this year!

If you think you are too old, how about Colonel Sanders who started his Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise at a age of 65. Or take a look at the 112 years old madam that I had met at Tony Robbins UPW Seminar. Suddenly your age doesn’t seems like a obstacle after seeing the above examples isn’t it? Our age is just a number and let us not make it an obstacle for our success.

Parting Words

What if your life is free from excuses? How much do you think that you can achieve? The sky is the limit! What is it that you want to do but you are not doing because your excuses are holding you back? Do you want to start your new exercise routine, run a business, create your own blog or go to college? What are your excuses and how much truth are there in it? Be aware of the excuses you have now and break free from it. You will get unstuck immediately and be more align to your true self.

Cheers,
Vincent

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Excuses No More – The Way To A Life Of Abundance