No Excuse Works

Motivation Monday: No Excuse Works

Life has our duties cut out for us. Aside self sustenance, we have people to take care of; we always do, and beyond that there's a purpose and or a cause to pursue.
Whatever the purpose may be and no matter how big it is, it is broken down to day to day duties that must be accomplished otherwise someone or something suffers.

Diligence is about being on top of every job or project. Keeping to deadlines, producing to standards and delivering and presenting with excellence. Handling any of that with slack hands won't deliver the expected.

We aren't sent to pursue what we don't have the interest or the expertise of producing. But not reaching the maximum level of productivity has so many reasons that cause it.

These reasons are called excuses.

You might have heard about genuine excuses. Well, there aren't anything like that. No excuse is genuine. There are things beyond our control as humans but none will be good enough reason not to do our duties. That's arguable, isn't it?

No excuse will do your duties for you, no matter how genuine. No excuse will clock in for you, sit at your desk, attend the meetings, make decisions and execute plans.

When your shop is close because of a genuine excuse, the customers still don't get their needs met and you lose market share. When you behave badly to a customer because you are in a genuinely bad mood, that excuse won't help the customer come back next time. When you don't meet your deadlines because of some very good excuses, the deadline remains unmet and the consequences on the company won't listen to excuses.

Why am I saying this? I'm not saying we would never have a reason not to do what we should do, after all, I'm writing this on Tuesday when I should have written it on Monday, I was genuinely busy but the rhythm isn't same, I'm late. I'm now using the time allocated for other duties to handle this. I'll have to double up to catch up, even if I'm 'my own boss'

Don't rely on excuses to escape duties. It won't work, excuses don't work, people do. You won't pass your exams with genuine excuses not to talk of flimsy ones. Don't form a habit of irresponsibility only because people will always understand.

Excuses are very dangerous things that leave duties undone and can create troubles that can be lethal and fatal.

What excuses do you have not to accomplish the expectations placed on you? What expectations do you have for not reaching your goals. What excuses do you have not to produce maximally and deliver within time with excellence? It may sound genuine but what's lost or missed won't listen. The clock won't stop ticking, the moment won't wait.

Deal with your genuine excuses and make it difficult for excuses to cut you off the opportunities God has given you, no reason is tenable for laxity and laziness. None is good enough.

When you are such who would always come with an excuse for not being productive, you generate an irresponsible reputation for yourself and no one will commit valuables into your hand.

Don't use excuses to make life's journey longer. Fight every excuse available to you to give for not being at the top of your game, fight it till you can't fight again. You'll discover that they are ploys of Satan to cut you off the honey in the rock, the throne in Goliath and the sweetness of greatness.

Do you have an excuse for not going to work today? Scrap it! No excuse will do your job for you.

Keep that in mind and you'll never have a down day.

Have a great week. Keep going, without any excuse. God bless you!

Proverbs 26:13 The Message (MSG)
13 Loafers say, “It’s dangerous out there!
    Tigers are prowling the streets!”
    and then pull the covers back over their heads.

The Message (MSG)

Proverbs 26
16. The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.