Excuses

Making up a string of excuses is usually harder than doing the work.
(Marie T. Freeman in 100 Days Of Prayer For Women, p. 114)
12 February 2015

Choices

When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.

(Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Excuses Begone! p. 22)

6 February 2015

Excuses

I'm reading Dr. Wayne W. Dyers's book Excuses Begone!

Here's a link to eighteen excuses and eighteen affirmations that he listed in Part One of the book.

224 February 2014

Self-Discipline

Self-discipline Action Points

1. Develop and follow your priorities.
2. Make a disciplined lifestyle your goal.
3. Challenge your excuses.
4. Remove awards until you finish the job.
5. Stay focused on results.

Never trade what you want at the moment for what you want most.
(John C. Maxwell, Leadership, 12 March)
13 March 2013

Missteps

You correct your previous missteps by stepping forward. (A Course In Miracles, 2,II,6,2)

... we could do a great deal to offset ... [personal] damage by turning our examination and criticism on ourselves, and taking energetic steps to correct what we think and do. (One Day At A Time In Al-Anon, 4 February)

... one of the surest paths to doing the right thing is knowing what it is about you that will make you do the wrong one. (Ratey and Johnson, Shadow Syndromes, p. 206)

Work hard at eliminating your own complaints about things you can do nothing to change ... (Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Pulling Your Own Strings, p. 71)

It is not acceptable to plead bad brain chemicals as an excuse for bad behavior. (Ratey and Johnson, Shadow Syndromes, p. 19)

Mr. Dickie
23 February 2012

Excuses

Photo - Mr. Dickie - (Wall art in Cumberland, MD)

Most of us are much sterner with others than we are in regard to ourselves; we make excuses for things in ourselves whilst we condemn in others things to which we are not naturally inclined.  (Oswald Chambers in Everything Counts by Steve Case, 5 December) 18 December 2011

Excuses

"I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else." (Benjamin Franklin in Chapter-By-Chapter Bible Commentary by Warren W. Wiersbe, p. 168)
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