Welcome Professionals…
… I just had a little car accident an hour ago. I was driving home from a client. When I was standing at a traffic light, wondering which topic I could use for my next TNF post, someone bumped into my car. Not a severe crash, it just made a few scratches. No big deal, it was more the surprise that hit me.
Let me just say so much: Don’t text and drive!
Once we had exchanged contact information and I was on the road again, I had the immediate thought: “Tonight I am going to skip the TNF post!” My mind was automatically making excuses: “I had an accident, I should now take a rest, maybe sit in the garden, enjoying the fine weather. Perhaps I suffer from a whiplash injury…”
What a nonsense! One of the typical attempts of my brain to save power and get some idle time. If your brain is somehow like mine, it will easily find the most creative excuses for skipping or postponing a chore. We must be aware of this fact and be alert that most of these immediate thoughts that keep us from pursuing a plan are just flimsy excuses trying to talk us out of something that takes attention and energy. It is the powersave mode that comes up.
With this awareness, we can push the nasty excuses aside and do what we intend to do. Like writing this post. Here it is.
Drive safely,
Malte
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What is happening Malte, you just recovered from a broken wrist. Your mind must have drifted because of the bang behind your car. Excuses are like procrastination they can steal time too. Two hours ago I was preparing for a one hour meeting to start at 12pm, got all my clothes out and before I realise I found myself making excuses why I should not attend, in a couple of minutes I just fell asleep on the Sofa in the living room only to wake 15 minutes to the end of the meeting. That is the kind of thing excuses can do.
However, I remember one of your post on Persistency which is like an antidote to EXCUSE, on the other hand if I had not fallen asleep I would not have sighted this great post.