I have a headache, I am too tired, Its not a good day today...we all use excuses. Sometimes our excuses are so that we can avoid hurting feelings or so that we don't feel guilty about saying no, but most times we use excuses to get out of something because we just simply do not want to do it. Using an excuse to avoid getting around to something can be a slippery slope, once you use one more come so easily and before you know you even believe your rationalization. And that guilty feeling you were hoping to avoid ends up hanging around nagging at you and it seems like someone always ends up hurt anyways. Why do we spend so much time making excuses? What do they really help you accomplish and why do we bother with them?Just the other day I found myself with an all out revolt while packing our bag to head out the door to go to Mommas class. The kind of uprising that starts simply enough "No mom, I don't want to go to gym today!!!!" then escalating to an angry screech that only a two year old can muster "NOOOOOOOOO gym!!! I want to watch Dora" till finally I find myself stomping after a very frantic terrible two about to lose her mind. I got to thinking how much easier it would be to stay home besides "I have a million other things that I have to get done, it is too hard to get out of the house with the kids every day they need a break and it eats up the whole morning. You know I hate what I am wearing anyways and all my "stuff" jiggles when I workout and I feel stupid when I don't know what I am doing and to top it all off I actually really hate exercising so do I need a better reason than that not to go today."
Count 'em there was six excuses of why I should stay home and not go to the gym. It took me almost as much time to justify why I shouldn't get going as it would have to just chase that lil bugger down and coax her into the car with a chocolate chip cookie. Lets be honest it is a heck of a lot easier to make excuses than it is to push yourself and your body out of their comfort zones. Its easy to be complacent that's why so many people are....and I am no stranger to finding a plethora of reasons NOT to get active.
They say that a person who is really wanting to do something will find a way to make it happen; and the other guy will just find an excuse.Wouldn't it be more efficient use of my time to just come up with one good reason to get my pancake butt out the door. I want to be the girl who is making stuff happen, I want to be known as the girl who couldn't do a pull up is now finishing Fran prescribed in just one year. I don't want to waste anymore time making excuses for what I should have or could have done. "Excuses are the nails that build the house of faliure" and I am not going to fail.
Before you come up with a reason....
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