22nd October 2012
`Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure'
Don Wilder
In my three decades of training career, I am yet to come across even one person who said that he does not have a goal or an ambition! All of us have goal and all of us want to achieve something in life. But the difference between those who achieve great things and ordinary people is the facts that achievers have more reasons to achieve than the excuses for not attempting! When you have more excuses for attempting, you give up the goal.
In my time management seminars, I ask the participants to do the following exercise which you can do over this weekend:
- Write down what you want to achieve in your life.
- Refine the same and be specific adding a time limit within which you want to achieve the same.
- Write five reasons why you want to achieve the same.
- Write five `excuses' for not having achieved the same all these years.
- Write down three ways in which you life would have been different already if you had achieved the same.
At the end of this exercise, I encourage the participants to present what they have written. I used to see many participants getting emotional!
Here's a very powerful question: `If for some reason you were not allowed to have those excuses, how your life would have transformed?'
N C Sridharan
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