Excuses Vs. Action

Hey There,

I find the following quote to be extremely fitting to the situation a lot of people are in today/this week especially with the weather.

“There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement,”

- Eric Hoffer

My translation, “many people are far more satisfied with a good excuse for not achieving excellence or doing the work necessary to reach a goal than they are with finding a solution to the excuse which would allow them to get closer to their goals.”

People love excuses, especially when they get them out of having to do work.

• Don’t have a job? Blame the economy
• Fat? It must be your genetics, or your age, or not having enough time, blah blah blah.

The only thing stopping you from doing anything is you! Y-O-U

Don’t believe me?

Let me introduce you to an old client of mine named Mike D.

Mike was a client of mine in 2009. Mike was 58 years old, he had no job, he had two heart attacks in his life and had to undergo heart surgery to install an internal pace maker and an internal defibrillator just in case the pace maker stopped working. On top of that he had Parkinson’s disease which would cause him to have fits of uncontrollable shaking (pretty scary).

Mike was also training with me twice a week for a full hour back when I was charging $90 an hour (that’s $720 a month).

Instead of making excuses (which he had a lot more of than you) Mike pushed as hard as he can which most of the time wasn’t much. Some days he was great and some days he couldn’t stop his hands from shaking long enough to grip a dumbbell.

But Mike didn’t give up and in 16 weeks he lost 35 pounds of fat off of his tiny 5’5″ frame.

Excuses are not something to be proud of. They are something to conquer. They are a small obstacle that is meant to be solved. And most of the excuses we have are self imposed. Stop making excuses and you’ll immediately have 90% less of them.

There is something for you to think about when you feel like it’s too cold, windy, early, late, etc. too work out