When you produce excuses instead of results, you are handicapping yourself, setting up artificial limits on your potential, slowing down your advancement to your goals. Excuses are one of, if not the biggest, roadblocks to achieving your goals. We are often held hostage by our beliefs. If we believe there is little chance for something happen-ing it probably won t because you won t work to make it happen. If you believe something can happen it has a much better chance because you work on making it happen.
All progress begins with a belief that something can be different.
If you make excuses a part of your daily routine you see yourself as a victim and victims seldom accomplish much. They are often used as a defence mechanism, a devise to avoid reality, but reality is seldom avoided long-term. When faced with an assignment, plan and discuss those factors which could impact successful completion. This proactive approach eliminates excuses by pre-venting them beforehand rather than rationalizing them afterwards. All energy can thus be expended on results generation and as we will see later on the quickest way to get recognition is by making a difference i.e. results generation.