WARNING : If you are looking for excuses... it is the first sign that your project is in trouble.
Some of us even start looking for excuses even before a project even starts.
This helps the person to regain confidence and peace. [It's surprisingly easy to be relaxed if you have excuses ready and feel that the others will accept it.]
I used to be like this. When I get a responsibility, I would think "Hmmm, I can start doing it, and if it doesn't work out perfectly, I can point out it was the problem of ..."
Then, as the work speeds up...as leaders come along and things happen, we keep adding and making a better excuse list, ensuring to remember all the factors that were out of our control. When I started my career as a salesman at Culture Club, Mumbai I often found myself imagining and finding reasons for myself about why I was unable to close a particular sale. Sometimes I would start making an excuse for a failure even before I started the sales call.
I have come across tons of people who have perfected the style of excuses with creativity. (Wrong astrology sign, helpless to change the system, childhood issues, etc). They always fail in whatever they do and live in the failure. They are okay, though because they always have an excuse ready to use. It soon becomes very easy for them to turn around and run when the going is rough.
Let me make a scenario for you thats the opposite of the excuse using life:
Imaging how it would be if you just stop looking for excuses at all?
Instead of trying to find excuses, what if our team was made up with people who are focused on NEVER taking up excuses. If we start now to purposely STOP taking up the opportunity to use an excuse or the luxury to blame someone, you may Transform the work you are doing and the person that you are.
If you are inspired enough to be focused to drive well and never ever stopped by a policeman, you will not need to blame the brake and the accelerator. THINK.
Sameer Ansar
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