Excuses for failure, excuses about your choices in life, excuses about what you feel you have accomplished fuel dysfunctional thinking – and consequently, undesirable actions and behaviors. Making excuses instead of taking one hundred percent responsibility for your actions, your thoughts, and your goals is the hallmark of people who fail to succeed.
Part of the power of taking responsibility for your actions is that you silence the negative, unhelpful voice in your head. When you spend your thinking time on success and goal accomplishment, instead of on making excuses, you free up the emotional space formerly inhabited by negativity.
The next time you catch yourself making an excuse, whether for the late project, the unmet goal, or the job you work, gently remind yourself - no excuses.
Spend your thought time planning your next successful venture. Positive thinking becomes a helpful habit. Excuses fuel failure..!
Quotations about Optimism
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier." --Colin Powell
"I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques . . . noting a certain similarity of words, a certain similarity of optimism . . . and a certain similarity in the lack of practical results during the ensuring years." --Margaret Thatcher
”Optimism is the foundation of courage.” --Nicholas Murray Butler
"Some folks go through life pleased that the glass is half full.
Others spend a lifetime lamenting that it's half-empty. The truth is: There is a glass with a certain volume of liquid in it. From there, it's up to you!" --Dr. James S. Vuocolo
"Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be." --Harvey Mackay
”One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.” --Lucille Ball
"We are a strong, robust, and prosperous nation. Optimism is the essence of our success. It drives our creativity and emboldens our entrepreneurial spirit. It is what makes us invest in the future and accomplish our highest aims." --Bill Frist
"For myself, I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else." --Winston Churchill
"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us." --Benjamin Franklin
”Cultivate optimism by committing yourself to a cause, a plan or a value system. You'll feel that you are growing in a meaningful direction which will help you rise above day-to-day setbacks.” --Robert Conroy
"An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity." --Winston Churchill
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." --Henry Ford
”Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.” --Richard M. DeVos
"Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will." --Norman Vincent Peale
”Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” --Helen Keller
"An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him." --Zig Ziglar
"No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." --Helen Keller
