Excuses!

Michael Jordon says, "If you want to be great, stop making excuses."  Do you want to be great at something?  Do you want to feel great?  Do you want to look great?  Do you want to just be great? 

Unannounced to ourselves we make excuses about a lot of things in our lives.  I have been trying to catch myself when I begin to make excuses out loud, but I am not sure that I have completely eradicated excuses from my own thoughts, but I think that will just take more time and is harder to do.  I think when things get tough on us, we start to explain things to ourselves - a rationalization of sorts that turns into an excuse.  I know I do it all the time with a plethora of different things in my life.  I just wonder if I did not make the excuse, what would happen?  Would I be beamed up in a spaceship, or would I crumble into a 1000 pieces, or what?  I think the only rational answer to this question would be that I would ACT instead of sitting back and making excuses.  I think about that and it gets me really motivated only because I realize that it is my own brain holding me back from the things I want.  Who's excuses are they really, yours or your perceptions of someone else's agenda for you?

They say with physical toughness comes mental toughness and when we are mentally tough we build character.  I am not a 100% sure of the exact definition of character, but in my mind I believe this to be something of great importance to who we are, what we can handle and how many excuses we can make before we get up off our ass and do something about our lives!