No Excuses

Kekich Credo #20 - Rationalizations are generally convenient evasions of reality and are used as excuses for dishonest behaviour, mistakes and/or laziness.  

Rationalizations are generally convenient evasions of reality.  

Rationalizations are an attempt to explain or justify a behaviour or an attitude with logical reasons. Rationalization is a defense mechanism. Rationalizing an event may help you maintain self-respect or avoid guilt over something you have done wrong.

Evading reality is a way to escape from a distasteful duty or responsibility by trickery, cunning or deception. Rationalizations can be ways to conceal or distort the truth for the purpose of misleading or justifying why one didn’t do something they were supposed to do.

Rationalizations are used as excuses for dishonest behaviour, mistakes and/or laziness.

Excuses are an attempt to lessen the blame attached to a fault or offense. Someone who constantly puts off tasks is a procrastinator. One who is always making excuses is really a person who often fakes illness or inability.  

Making excuses can often be traced back to one of these reasons:  fear, uncertainty or lack of purpose.  To stop making excuses, one must determine which of these three applies to you.  

Reasons are the opposite of excuses so long as the reasons are taken in the positive sense of the word. If excuses justify not doing a task, then reasons need to be our justification for doing that task.  The more reasons we have to do the right things, the less we will be persuaded to justify doing the wrong ones. 

What excuses are you making?  Why are you making excuses?  Is it fear, uncertainty or lack of purpose?  Remember you can have results or you can have excuses but you can’t have both.  Find the reasons to do something and take action not excuses. 

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