The Desert of Arizona
Sunny 36 Degrees
We all have things we’d like to do. Places we’d like to go, projects we’d like to finish, other projects we’d like to start.
Sometimes, however, we spend a lot of time talking about those things without actually doing them. Talking becomes the habit. Acting becomes the exception.
Given the training we’ve all received, we’re all pretty skilled at offering up completely rational reasons for why this is so.
We call these things excuses.
What would happen to your excuses if you knew how little anyone cared about them? What would happen to all of those things if you truly realized how little attention anyone was paying to you… ever?
At first, your ego might consider this an affront. But actually, it’s quite liberating.
While you might think that you need an excuse for why you haven’t done X or what you’re waiting on to begin Y, you don’t need an excuse.
Do you want to do X or Y or not? If so, there’s no reason to talk, just do it. If you don’t want to do those things, be honest with yourself and just say it.
Then move on…
Being honest with yourself is truly liberating. How can you be honest with others if you can’t do it with yourself?
School trains us to be aware of the “authority” that’s watching our every move and then have an explanation for why we do or do not behave in a certain way.
Despite what the system might hope for you to believe at the moment, there is no such authority. No authority but YOU.
We all have value to add to the world. Be willing to commit to doing that in the way you see fit. I haven’t found a way to go through life that is more rewarding than that.
Once you start down this path, you’ll find your “excuses” fading into nothing where they belong.