I believe that most of us have come to realize that our main problem dealing with financial, love, health issues, is a state of mind. Unfortunately all of us have had experiences in the past that have left a mental scar; because of these scars our confidence and belief in ourselves has changed. The best way to deal with these past issues is to confront them, learn from them, forgive yourself and move on.
There is absolutely nothing that can be done about past events, those should be looked at as a learning experience; draw from them the lessons needed and realize that it is no longer you. It takes guts to look at yourself in the mirror and let yourself know, that whatever happened in the past that changed your life, is gone, to never return. We need to concentrate on today and tomorrow.
Most importantly, live the moment; life is way too short to be walking around with the world on your shoulders. Realize that no one truly cares; if something was to happen to you today, the world will continue the same way, and you will be forgotten in a few days; so let go of the stupid stuff and start enjoying your life. Love yourself and those that surround you.
What’s Your Excuse?
What do you think of you?
This is the biggest hurdle that we need to learn to jump; our opinion of ourselves. Whatever it is that we think of ourselves, shows in our actions and the action with and towards others. People have learned to read others not only by their words but by actions, mannerism, and attitude. We cannot hide this, we cannot hide our feelings as well as we think we can; something will always give us away to the truth. The best way to make sure we send the correct signal to others is by learning to love ourselves. Realize that we are unique in this world, there isn’t another person like you, always keep that in mind.
It should not matter what the haters or gossipers think about us, but the right signal needs to be sent to those that can and are willing to help in our pursue of happiness. There are plenty of people that are willing to take a chance on someone with the correct attributes. Learn to believe in yourself, stop being afraid, what will be will be. Stop wasting your precious time on this planet on nonsense; learn to go for what is rightfully yours. We have to have lots of faith in what the universe has in store for us; imagine that you already have those things that you crave, feel it in your heart. The most important thing that needs to be done, is to LOVE ourselves. Just do it.
What’s Your Excuse?
What’s Stopping from Moving Forward?
It is a matter of belief; what do you think about yourself? what do you see when you look in the mirror? Do you see a warrior, champion, a go getter, or do you see a loser, a person with no ambition or dreams? What is your perception of you? Because regardless if its good or bad; that’s what it is. We are what we think about, whether you believe it or not. Don’t you think that is better to believe in something that can actually change your entire life, instead of going around with all that weight on your shoulders, worrying about something that may never materialize?
Instead, learn to see the world thru eyes of happiness and positiveness; learn to shed all the worrying and those bad thoughts that we have; this process is something that has to be learned; realize that this may be a part of what’s keeping you stuck. Learn to select the thoughts you want,,learn to have an imaginary person that is busy kicking the bad thoughts out of your head. It may seem funny, but trust me when I tell you that it works. Imagination is your greatest ally; imagine yourself as you wish you would be, maintain that thought, start acting as if you are already that person; the universe has no choice but to make it happen. You are like a radio antenna, sending and receiving, make sure that what you send out, if what you want to receive. Mind your thoughts and JUST DO IT.
Why do We Make Excuses?
This is a natural human response, believe it or not. Unfortunately, we care too much about what others may think about us and we want to fit in. Uncertainty, self-doubt and fear are natural emotions when contemplating change. Excuse making can be consider a conscious attempt to manipulate the emotions of others; we hate having others think ill of us, so we make up excuses for our wrongdoing or shortcomings.
There are other behaviors for which we make excuses for ourselves. Excuses in the form of denial or distortion are sometimes made to continue participating in the action that are self harming, such as smoking, drinking etc. People make excuses to avoid pain and responsibility; again, worrying too much about the opinion of others regarding ourselves.
Bottom line is that this type of behavior, besides becoming addictive, is also unhealthy because we start to feel guilty about all the excuse making that we start to doubt ourselves. Be honest with yourself and those that care about, the rest of the folks that may have a good or bad opinion of us, can go fly a kite.
What’s your Excuse?
Too Naive?
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything due to illness, what has changed for you since the last time you read What’s Your Excuse? The purpose of these writings is to try to open your mind to a new and achievable world. Your mind is the key to everything; the key that unlocks all of your potential and decides what your future will look like, it’s all in your mind.
I think that you know that according to research, humans only use about if their brain capacity; there is so much to learn, so much that we don’t know about the mind; the one thing we do know is that the average does not have interest or is aware about the weapon he has inside his head; are you average? I think not, otherwise you would not be reading this type of material. Deep down inside, you know, you are destined for a better life; you just have to find your center, you have not found that one thing that will click it all together; do not give up the search, eventually you will reach that point where everything will make sense.
What’s Your Excuse?
Cannot use your imagination?
Sit back and relax, make an attempt to form an image of a mirror in your head, make the mirror as big or small as you please; see the frame, give it color, see the designs on the frame, see it clearly; can you do that? Now, picture yourself in that mirror living the lifestyle that most of us crave; fill that mirror with the people you love, the house you want, take a deep breath of that fresh air, imagine the colors of that house, the blue of the water in your pool, the laughter of your kids having fun; listen to the birds sing. If you can maintain this picture in your mind for at least five minutes on a daily basis, it will at least provide you with that so much necessary peace of mind. Watch little by little as your life changes before your eyes.
We all need to learn to use our imagination to our advantage; our creative imagination is a gift that we seldom use to its full potential. Establish the habit of transporting yourself in your mind to that place that we desire; have the riches you deserve and enjoy those riches with your loved ones. Learn what motivates you, what drives you, and use your imagination to believe you already own those things you desire.
What’s Your Excuse?
Are you ordinary?
Success is not being extraordinary, success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Poor thinking habits keep most people poor, It all depends on your attitude; What’s yours? You choose your attitude; you must send your emotions to school to learn values. Always use your past as a school and not to shape your future. With the proper attitude, you can get a clear picture of how you want your future to turn out. Do the best you can at all times, mediocrity should not be a part of your routines.
Always make demands of yourself and never let yourself off the hook. Start measuring your achievements as small as they may be, measure then and make sure to reward yourself for the achievements. Your subconscious will start believing in those rewards, and will make sure you are setting and accomplishing goals. Once you start setting goals, unconsciously, you will set the life style that you would like to have. Do not short change yourself, learn to dream big, the bigger the better.
Do you not believe?
The first thing we need to start doing is taking care of ourselves; visualize yourself having ultimate health; start dressing like a prospect and not a suspect. The hardest thing you will ever have to do, is to believe that God has a plan in store for you too; to believe that you too have the ability to create and live an amazing life. To believe.
Most people fail in life because of their lack of belief. Do not go through life just surviving. Do not be like some folks that realize 30 to 40 years down the road, that they have not lived their life; so busy working and taking care of everybody else, they forgot about themselves. What do you like to do? How about traveling? Perhaps visiting the pyramids, or visiting Paris.
We want you to refuse to die an unlived life. Always keep in mind that your mind is a machine, you must program it for success. There is a lot more in you than you have been expressing, believe that. Do me a favor, start listening to positive affirmations on a daily basis; it will help you to pause the negative charter that goes on in your head all the time.
Do you not believe?
The first thing we need to start doing is taking care of ourselves; visualize yourself having ultimate health; start dressing like a prospect and not a suspect. The hardest thing you will ever have to do, is to believe that God has a plan in store for you too; to believe that you too have the ability to create and live an amazing life. To believe.
Most people fail in life because of their lack of belief. Do not go through life just surviving. Do not be like some folks that realize 30 to 40 years down the road, that they have not lived their life; so busy working and taking care of everybody else, they forgot about themselves. What do you like to do? How about traveling? Perhaps visiting the pyramids, or visiting Paris.
We want you to refuse to die an unlived life. Always keep in mind that your mind is a machine, you must program it for success. There is a lot more in you than you have been expressing, believe that. Do me a favor, start listening to positive affirmations on a daily basis; it will help you to pause the negative charter that goes on in your head all the time
Do You Think you are Too Fat or Too Skinny?
I went over to a pool party over the weekend, there were lots of people enjoying themselves, lots of people in the swimming pool; there was a girl that should not wear a bikini, but was; She is to say the least a bit overweight and in my eyes the bikini did not do her justice; nevertheless, She was prancing around as if She was the ninth wonder of the world; I was truly impressed with her self-confidence. My has is off to her, She couldn’t care less what others thought about her, She was there to have a good time and that is exactly what She did. Kudos to her.
The point of this “what’s your excuse?” is to try to help others to open their eyes; virtue, most of the times, is in the eyes of the beholder. If you look at yourself and have nothing but happy thoughts. These feelings will propagate to others and people will look past the things that we could consider not normal, see the real you and treat you accordingly.
Do not let others opinion of you cloud what you already know, that you are an exceptional human being, you are created in the image of God, so there is nothing wrong or ugly about you. I am here to tell you that you are a worthy person, you are great, not two ways about it. You are You and no one can take that away from you. You are UNIQUE, act like it.
Don’t Have Enough Time?
If you don’t now, then when? what is it that you are doing different now, that will make a difference later? Be honest with yourself. The fact is that most of us will work the rest of our lives just to retire with limitations. Because, unless, you have put away a hefty nest egg, the social security benefits will not provide enough to lead a decent life. The time to act is NOW.
What should you do? Only you can answer that question; do not let others influence that decision. Do something that you know about and enjoy doing. That is the way to make a difference in your life and at the same time enjoy doing it. The important message here is that, the nine to five bit does not work for the majority, decide what else to do to create other income streams and JUST DO IT.
What’s Your Excuse?
Do you Lack Drive? Ambition?
We all go through the dilemma of being afraid of the unknown; we need to stop with the excuse making once and for all. Excuses are also a way to make you realize that you too can be creative. It takes effort and imagination to keep coming up with an excuse for this and for that. Think about it, the process that you have to go through to convince someone as to why you cannot do what has been assigned to you; you are managing to postpone taking the action that you know needs to be taken.
The motivation that you need to stop this old nasty habit of excuse making, is probably staring you in the face daily; do you have kids? a wife? or just someone that you truly care about; that is all you need to take that necessary leap to catapult you to the other side. The winning side; that side where you wish you were but have always avoided it for one reason or another. It is time to put all of those excuses behind and start taking chances to help you make that needed income. Just look around and find something that you are good at, start learning more details about it, get deeper knowledge and start sharing this knowledge with the world. Build it and they will come. Just do it.
Do you have bad habits?
Remember that you decide your habits and your habits decide your future. Everything that you do on a daily basis, is helping or hurting your chances for a better future. Decide to choose some good habits for once; get up early, show gratitude for the things you already have; believe it or not, this is a life changing habit. There are others that will definitely help, such as reading and exercising, those will help build that self-steem that needs a boost on most of us, but showing true gratitude will change your life. Just take a second to look around and you will realize all those things you need to be grateful for. Just the fact that you woke up this morning should make you thank God or whatever drives you. This is very strong.
Make a decision that TV and social media will take a second seat to reading and meditating; We know the amount of time that we spend watching silly programs that does not help our motivation at all; those habits will definitely need to be change if you want to make a difference in your future. Start thinking on a new product that you will develop, a new book that you will start writing, some new connections that will make with people that are where you wish you could be. Start realizing who you are at the moment and who you can become with a bit more knowledge and confidence. What is holding you back?
Magic happens when you believe in yourself. Our fear of others people’s opinions has become an irrational and unproductive obsession in the modern world, and its negative effects reach beyond performance. If you start paying less attention to what makes you, your talents, beliefs and values, you will harm your potential; do not play it safe because you are afraid of the criticism; the fear being ridicule or rejected will stop us in our tracks from reaching our potential. The desire to fit in and the paralyzing fear of being disliked will undermine your ability to pursue the lives you want to create.
Once you become aware of your fears, start guiding yourself towards confidence building statements; (I am good at this, I’ve done it enough times, I need to trust my abilities) These statements will help you focus on your skills and the abilities rather than other’s opinions. A deeper and stronger sense of who you are, needs to be developed. Creating a personal philosophy of who you are, can be an eye-opening and powerful exercise. You are the only that truly knows what makes you; nobody has ever or will ever walk in your shoes. You are worthy of everything. Shut out the noise and opinions of others and listen to your internal voice. More importantly, remember that growth and learning to take place when you are operating at your full capacity.
What’s Your Excuse?
Nick Vujicic (look him up) was born with no legs or arms, anyone else would have most likely given up on life, not Nick; not only does he lead a normal life, but he is a motivational speaker, a swimmer, a husband and a Father to four beautiful kids. He gives thanks every day for the things that he has. The handicap that he has, is viewed as a challenge and not a hindrance. It is amazing and heartwarming to watch him do the things that normal people can, but never do, because of their limiting beliefs.
Do not let any circumstances stand in your way or define who you are. Surround yourself with people of your caliber, go getters, visionaries, motivated people. You should, on a daily basis, give thanks for all that you have, because, let me tell you, you have a lot to be grateful for. Take the time to look around, this is a beautiful world, you just to take the time to admire and enjoy it. Look at your gorgeous family, they should be enough to get you out of the rut and start chasing your dreams.
Just do it.
What’s Your Excuse?
Do not feel comfortable around people?
This is a good one, and used by many. In order to avoid this feeling, you have to make it point to help others; when you start feeling you are viewed as a helper of others, your attitude towards people will change; you will feel the need to keep going, to continue helping more folks. You can get anything in life if you help enough people get what they want. Never let anything keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.
Another way to come to terms with this excuse, is to surround yourself with people that are only going to lift you higher. Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy. Ask yourself if what you are doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow, if not, change direction; failure will never overtake you if your determination to succeed is strong enough.
What’s your Excuse?
There are thousands of excuses, what’s yours?
Excuses are a powerful thing, one excuse can negate 100 opportunities; I sort of smile everytime I hear someone making excuses as to why they have not been able to achieve financial success; I listened to them as I watch them drink a $5 dollar beer and smoke a cigarrette out an $8 pack.
Give me a break, when will people realize that you make your own future; you can actually be the star of your own movie instead of being the extra in someone else’s flick.
Honestly, If you don’t want to do something, one excuse is as good as the other; the trouble with excuses is that once you start telling them over and over, you will actually believe your own crap.Being lazy is about coming up with lots of excuses.
Instead of excuses, take action, you will be surprises how often you accomplish what you thought was dificult. There is just not enough time, start setting empowering goals, work with more urgency, write a list of your priorities, follw through and begin to truly enjoy life.
What’s your Excuse?
Are you too judgmental?
The process of judgment often feeds and extends itself until a strong negative self-image has formed. If you begin by believing you are not good at the endeavor you are about to launch, then you will act the role, never allowing yourself anything but a glimpse of your true capabilities
Why not act a different role? Imagine, just imagine for one second you are the best in the world at what you are about to do, you will quite consciously playing a role, but in the process you may become more aware of the range of your true capabilities. Besides being fun, this type of role-playing will most likely reveal capabilities you did not know you had.
You need to break those habitual patterns to be able to extend your limits of your own style, and explore subdued aspects of your personality.
What’s Your Excuse?
Do you Think You have no Talent?
The excuse does not matter; we all possess the God given talent to achieve our deepest desires; Unfortunately, without a standard for right or wrong, the judgmental mind will make standards on its own. One crucial step to take to achieve greatness, is stop finding faults with yourself; There are too many other negative things that we have to deal with, we do not need to help by thinking ill of ourselves. We have been created on the image of a celestial being, act like it. Stop passing judgment on yourself because of failures, just take them as lessons learned and keep striving forward.
Have you ever thought about what it takes to perform a task? any task? all the parts in your body that need to move as one; the brain sending signals to your hands, feet, muscles, and everything working in unison; it is amazing the things that we can accomplish unconsciously, not real thought given, we just do it. Most of these tasks are executed flawlessly and without thought. The point here is that you need to get not of your own way and get in the “zone”; this is when we make things happen without effort, without trying hard.
Think of yourself as an athlete, when performing to their peek, they do not criticize everything they do, they just perform. All we have to do is to learn and be able to get into a rhythm, and just let it happen. Whatever it is that makes you tick, you should explore and exploit. Stop telling yourself what you cannot do and start telling yourself what you CAN do. When you understand how simple attention can be used to learn anything, it becomes an easy matter to discover the important places to focus your attention, then use the simple process of discovering from experience.
You feel that you have no Power?
This excuse is further from the truth than any other excuses you may be able to conjure. Money has no power on its own, it only has the power you give it. The ultimate power is your ability to focus and the state you put yourself in. Once you achieve your peak state, you can start to adopt empowering beliefs.
If you want to live a fulfilling life, financial freedom is a must. Ask yourself what you want then ask why you want it; connecting your goals to your purpose is vital.
The Law of Attraction is the idea that what you focus on, you attract, use it wisely. Take control of your life; Remember, Financial Freedom means you have enough resources to pay for your living expenses, and it allows accomplishing most of your goals. This world has enough of everything for everyone, start claiming your portion.
What’s your Excuse?
Regardless of the excuse, now is the time to put down the remote, put away those cookies and start seriously thinking about your future, it is time to take action. To watch the way things are unfolding throughout the world and especially here at home, and not do anything about it, is a bit irresponsible, wouldn’t you say?
The food and gas are sky high, and the sad part about it, is that we cannot see the light at the end of the tunnel. What are you waiting for? Get up, shake it off and take action. If you are one of us, an average Joe, financial issues are knocking at your door. Do not answer the knock; just realize that something needs to happen that can provide that much-needed peace of mind.
Invest in the best tool that you have available to you; the best tool that you have at your disposal, is “YOU”. Start to develop the correct mindset that will catapult you to a secure location. We need to shut down that part of the brain that only comes up with negative thoughts. Let more of your subconscious mind take over, fuel by positive thinking; begin to think about that one thing that you love and always wanted to be involved with, make the decision and take action. Belief, mix with positive thinking and faith, backed by strong action, will lead you to great success. Just do it.
What’s Your Excuse?
Are you afraid?
I think that judging how things are unfolding in the world, we should all be afraid. The issue is, are we doing anything about our fears? We see the prices of everything going up; soon we will need double the amount of money just to maintain the same life style that we have today. There is no end in sight that we can see, things are about to become worse. So, this is the time to take action.
Whatever it is that we are afraid of, we need to face our fears, confront them and do something about them. Action, is the word that needs to be engraved in our brains. Hoping and praying, even though it may feel good, will not remedy the present or future. The only way to feel secure in this time and age, is to have a nice emergency fund somewhere. Unfortunately, the people that are in charge now, are not as smart as those before; they are letting someone else dictate the direction our country is heading, instead of, again, taking the proper action. So, we have to take charge of our future.
We want to make those reading this, aware, that there is still time to prepare for what is about to come. The worse thing to do, is nothing. Get up, wake up and get ready for whatever comes. Find something that makes you happy and use it to better other people’s lives. Help others first, your rewards will follow. We are not trying to sell anything with these comments, only trying to inspire others to take that extra step that is required to enhance your life.
What’s Your Excuse?
Are you Afraid of the Unknown?
This is a common fear that most of us have; we rather stay in the comfort of our zone; the things and people that we have learned to know and appreciate. The only issue with this is, that we should be afraid of what is in store for us if we keep on the path that we are on. How long at your job? Many years? If you pay attention to those coworkers that have been employed for a lot longer than you, that is your destiny, if you don’t make a change. Plain and simple.
The fear of not making it the way you deserve, should be more than enough to get you motivated to embark in the unknown. The fear of failure should push all of us beyond any senseless fear we may feel. Take a quick look at those that you know and have made it, it wasn’t because they work harder than you, they just did something that was unknown and uncomfortable to them, but they decided to take a leap and went for it.
Think about this, your future without any changes, will only lead you to continue to barely make it until retirement, and then the bad news, what the government provides you, is not enough to lead a comfortable life, that is why you see so many retirees working at Walmart as greeters. That in itself should more fearful than anything else your brain may conjure. Get off your butt and make the change.
What’s Your Excuse?
With the technology being what it is nowadays, even not knowing how to navigate a computer, is not a good excuse. There are thousands of 70+ years of age, managing their business online. You tube has an extensive library of “how to” videos”. These videos will take you step by step on just about anything you want to learn. We have to give credit to those folks that took their time to teach others about mundane tasks or extremely complicated ones. It is time to get involved with computers, and use them to your advantage.
The great thing about everything being so advanced is that, we do not have to be programmers, all we have to learn is which button to push in order to be able to copy and paste. It is basically that simple. If the need arises to write something meaningful, take a bit of time to do some research, learn what others have written on the particular topic you are interested in, and say the same things using your own words; this way, you will never be accused of plagiarism. There are programs already in bedded on the computers that will guide you every single step of the way in writing your story or whatever message you are trying to convey. It all takes is that, you are willing and able to learn a few simple steps.
We truly don’t have much to write about this particular excuse, since channels such as “You tube” have made it so easy to learn about any topic. The only excuse that anyone can is have is simple, I don’t want to do it. I don’t want to benefit from today’s advanced technology and the many ways to make money online. I am happy the ways things are; I work for McDonald’s and the future there looks bright. Really? Is this you? Good Luck.
What’s Your Excuse?
Are you a Procrastinator?
To procrastinate, is to extend tasks that can be accomplished today, into the following day. Procrastinators will finds many ways to justify their actions; they can come up with all sort of excuses to avoid getting it done today.
Are you on of those? In order to remedy this flaw, it is a flaw, do not try to justify it, we need to start by setting goals, identify the problem, create of plan of action, break large tasks into smaller ones; these are just a few steps that can be followed to break those bad habits.
Be aware that you are not alone, about 20% of the population falls into this category-why do it today when I can do it tomorrow? Another step to follow, is to start rewarding yourself when a task is finished; your brain will release dopamine, which will make you happy. Celebrate your successes, regardless of their size.
Think about this, how many times have you said to yourself,” I will start my project when this happens”? We all have done it at one time or another. Be aware, there will never be a better time than right now, to invest in yourself.
The very first step to recovery is, to realize that you are a procrastinator, set up a plan of action and follow it. You will never regret this decision, it will help you create attainable goals; this new habit will lead you to the success you know you deserve.
What is your excuse?
We were created in God’s image, as such we were giving the divine right to be abundant. Wealth should flow to us the way water flows on a river. Please, note the only limits we have, are those that we put on ourselves. Our mission here at Alicia’s Network is to empower as many people possible to truly believe these words. Let go of limiting beliefs.
What’s YOUR excuse?
