Hello beautiful people. When I was in school, I was sure that the university was all that was standing in-between me and all I wanted to do. "I can't wait to leave and pursue all my dreams!" You'd hear me say.
Guess what? It's been six months since I left, and while I have gone ahead to tick a few boxes off my list, I find that it's much more difficult right now to be disciplined, to drop my phone and focus on the things that really matter because now, my time is in my hands and whatever is do with it is totally up to me. You know what this presents me with? Another excuse.
I can latch onto the this new phase and all the excuses of avails me as a reason for not acing my goals, or I can rise above the distractions and go headstrong, reaching for the life I want.
There will always be an excuse for not turning in that application, for not getting fit, for not praying, for not being a good person. Look around you. The seemingly successful people are the ones who used the excuses life presented them with as building blocks for the life they want. And as cliché as this sounds, Benjamin Franklin was right when he said "He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
If you're making excuses today, the chances are that ten years from now, you'll have even more believable reasons why you didn't do the things you should have done because the older we get, the more complicated life becomes.
Don't forget that superior people are the ones who look excuses in the face and tell them, "Nah. Not today."
Get up and do the work!
