James Kilgarriff’s Weblog

Our excuses are like mind viruses that can really quench the fire of our desires and dreams leaving us in a place of feeling stuck or in some kind of inertia about life. The important first step is to become aware of excuses and from there one can take steps to remove them, one excuse at a time.

Excuses get sealed into our minds at a very early age. According to Wayne Dyer in his latest book “Excuses begone”,  he states that excuses are mind viruses that have been transferred from other people to you such as your parents, teaches or via the TV.

Excuses become so much a part of us that they turn into reactionary habits of thinking that get to a point where we use words like, “I cant change because this is the way I am” or “this kind of thinking runs in the family” or ” I am too old, too young, too broke, to tired to make changes”

If you buy into these statement or beliefs then there is little hope you will ever go beyond them.

A decision has to be made when you can declare “If  I created these excuses then I have the power to erase them one at a time”. It is important to remember that you are in control of your thinking process and no matter how steep an excuse or addiction is you can erase it from your life as long as you have the willingness, awareness and patience to do so.

A simple exercise is to use this excuse busting formula..

When I…., then I will be able to…..

For example. When I am not suffering from fatigue then I will exercise regularly.

When I find the right job then I will be more peaceful and contented.

If you are reading this then a part of you knows that you have excuses that you are allowing to tow you around by the nose and its time to shake them off your memory banks.

This theme is quite extensive and will post more about this at a later date.