What Is Your Excuse?
The last 8 seconds of this video sum it all up. 2 days left in 2009. Did you accomplish all you planned this year? Did you meet or exceed your personal expectations?
Around this time each year we hit the reset button. We evaluate the last year, set goals for next year, and start to hype ourselves up. I am for all of that. but I fear we also start to create excuses, not just for what we did not accomplish, but for what we are afraid to accomplish next.
Not enough resources? Be more creative.
Not enough creativity? Build space to find your creative core.
Not enough time? Plan a little better.
His Fault. Her Fault. Their Fault. Naw…
The economy? Innovate.
Scared? Awesome, great chance to develop faith.
Do not allow yourself to be an excuse spotter, become a problem solver.
Try something new. Do things different. Stretch yourself. We all need you to do it…for us.
We still have a couple of days to redeem 2009, and an entire year to dominate 2010. I refuse to live another year with regrets. We do not have time. I mean, just yesterday we were kids in school, now we have kids in school. This is our time. This is our moment. Do not let excuses keep you from executing your dreams. Let’s Go!
I promise ya SB..you have a gift..your blog always hits me in the right spot!
I burn to do great and significant things at the start of every year..I do hit a few but miss so many more. It’s frustrating but I’ll always get up and try again..it kills me not to. A little bit of anguish along the way makes me tick it seems. ha!
Peace!
jamie
Thanks for the love Jamie! You are great and significant. You keep our world turning, and that is no easy task! (haha). Much love homey…keep getting up.
I agree. No excuses. Do your best, try your hardest.
I believe in plans and goal-setting but I think what gets us are the preconceived ideas. When things don’t turn out like we think they should, we automatically assume that we failed. But maybe God has different ideas of how things work.
Let’s go, 2010. It’s gonna be a great year! (I’ve got a feelin’…)
Great post…a word we all need to keep top of mind as we approach 2010…get those excuses out of the way and dreams become the size they should be!
The one lesson I have tried to teach my children ( one is 14 and the other is 7) is to live their lives with no regrets. I have myself had regrets at points in my life and it is a miserable thing. I have also lived had periods where I lived life with no regrets and it is freeing and awesome. I want and desire my kids to live in the freedom of living life with no regrets.
2010 is going to be a year of living life with no regrets for me, my wife, and kids. It is going to be a year where we see God work in powerful ways.
Chris, you are so right. We have to live the right size dreams!
Jim, lets live it regret free!
If you don’t try to make excuses, you have the right to not take excuses. And when you are unaccustomed to making them, they don’t sound “normal,” “rational,” or “believable” when you hear them. And when you aren’t in the habit of blaming some outside force for the things you are accountable for, when you slip and try to make an excuse, it doesn’t even feel right rolling off your tongue. Habits build your character for better or worse, and when you step outside your character, you know it pretty quickly.