{"id":20843,"date":"2020-04-25T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-25T07:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/?p=20843"},"modified":"2020-03-19T12:19:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T19:19:07","slug":"successful-people-make-things-happen-failures-just-make-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/successful-people-make-things-happen-failures-just-make-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful People Make Things Happen – Failures Just Make Excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>God made the world in which we live totally symmetrical.\u00a0 <\/span>For every left…He made a right.\u00a0 <\/span>For every positive….He made a negative.\u00a0 <\/span>For every good …He made a bad.\u00a0 <\/span>What is the opposite of Success?….You guessed it….Failure.\u00a0 <\/span>In this life you either do one or the other.\u00a0 <\/span>There is no middle ground.\u00a0 <\/span>There is no fence to sit on or worse to straddle.\u00a0 <\/span>You either are pregnant or you aren\u2019t.\u00a0 <\/span>You either are awake or you aren\u2019t…Just he honest with yourself….You either are successful or you aren\u2019t !\u00a0 <\/span>There simply is no middle ground.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no acceptable excuse that can be used with which to justify failure in the United States of America.\u00a0 <\/span>You are a free citizen in a free country with the right to choose how and where to live your own life. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a good honest look at the word excuse.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have heard it said that excuses <\/b>are the lies we tell ourselves to attempt to justify our own lack of performance as we attempt to hide from responsibility or accountability.\u00a0 <\/span>Make sense?<\/span><\/p>\n

An Excuse is the skin of a lie……. stuffed with reason.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

There is no acceptable excuse that can be used to justify failure!<\/span><\/p>\n

Now please do not misunderstand me.\u00a0 <\/span>If you are looking for a good excuse that you can use to avoid involvement or performance, you know that any excuse <\/b>you use will work.<\/b>\u00a0 <\/span>Your free will of choice applies to all of your own decisions.\u00a0 <\/span>Just remember that it is only the actual \u201cdoing\u201d of the work or the \u201cperforming\u201d of the effort that actually gets the job done.<\/span><\/p>\n

Excuses avoid doing the required work to accomplish a project.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Excuses are the language of failures.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Doctor David J. Schwartz, in his book, THE MAGIC OF THINKING BIG, says:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGo deep into your study of people, and you\u2019ll discover unsuccessful people suffer a mind-deadening thought disease.\u00a0 <\/span>We call this disease excusitis.\u00a0 <\/span><\/b>Every failure has this disease in its advanced form.\u00a0 <\/span>And most \u201caverage\u201d persons have at least a mild case of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

You will discover that excusitis explains the difference between the person who is going places and the fellow who is barely holding his own.\u00a0 <\/span>You will find that the more successful the individual, the less inclined he is to make excuses.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the fellow who has gone nowhere and has no plans for getting anywhere has a book full of reasons to explain why.\u00a0 <\/span>Persons with mediocre accomplishments are quick to explain…\u201c why they haven\u2019t,\u201d.., \u201cwhy they don\u2019t,\u201d… \u201cwhy they can\u2019t,\u201d….and…\u201dwhy they aren\u2019t.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Study the lives of successful people and you\u2019ll discover this:\u00a0<\/span>all the excuses made by the mediocre fellow… could be… but aren\u2019t….made by the successful person.<\/b>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Are you the accomplisher of success…..or…..are you the maker of excuses?<\/span><\/p>\n

Successful people are those folks who are willing to do …….what the failure refuses to do…<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Which one are you ?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Leaders Gotta Lead…..<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sample from Leadership Section<\/p>\n

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God made the world in which we live totally symmetrical.\u00a0 For every left…He made a right.\u00a0 For every positive….He made a negative.\u00a0 For every good …He made a bad.\u00a0 What is the opposite of Success?….You guessed it….Failure.\u00a0 In this life … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20843"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20846,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20843\/revisions\/20846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davesevern.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}