Too Many Excuses
I have a confession to make. While it’s true that I’ve been very busy these past few weeks and that wonderful thing called life has thrown in a few unexpected twists and turns, the truth is, I’ve been making too many excuses. I’m guessing we all fall into that mode every now and then.
There have been things I’ve wanted to do for you, videos I wanted to create, new content I wanted to put up here at AAF, new stuff I’ve wanted to add to the Elite Member area and I haven’t been able to do it. My MacBook, which is where I have all my AAF stuff saved and what I used to do all my video tasks, has been broken for a while. It won’t power up. It’s totally and completely dead.
I’ve tried to get on the phone with Apple Care before, but I happened to call during a time when their help center was closed. Their automated message suggested that I go online to make an appointment. So I did. After going through a bunch of steps and filling out forms on the internet, the process ended with an error message. Super frustrating!!! A phone call, all the time on the computer and zero progress. I was as far from getting help for my MacBook as when I started. I really dislike calling in to help centers because it always seems to take up so much more time than necessary. Then there are those times when I’m on hold for so long and end up getting disconnected and have to start all over! Ugh!
So, after that failed attempt and getting the help I needed for my laptop, I’ve been put it off, hoping that I could figure out how to get it to charge (after all I was able to do it once since I started having problems – but never again).
I’ve been using all that as an excuse as to why I “can’t” create the new videos and content I want to give you – “technical difficulties.”
Well, yesterday I DECIDED that I needed to get on the ball and stop dragging my feet. I need to stop making excuses! I got on the phone again and made that dreaded call to customer service and did have to wait on hold for a while and did have to explain my situation more than once. You know how you explain everything to the first person you talk to, they make all kinds of notes, yet when they transfer you to the department that can help you, you still have to explain everything all over again anyway? Why do they take all those notes if no one’s going to read them? Anyway, bottom line is, I have an appointment to get my MacBook taken care of this morning. I finally got off my butt and did something about my problem.
Even though that’s one of my pet peeves (people grumbling about a situation, but doing nothing to better it), I find myself falling into that funk every now and then. Life gets in the way, my schedule gets hectic, family issues arise. I’m sure you’ve been there before. You’ve probably had times like that too. But is there something right now that you KNOW you need to take care of? Something you KNOW is holding you back, but you’ve been pushing it to the back burner or dragging your feet about?
If there is, I challenge you to get off your butt today and do something, anything to improve your situation. Will my MacBook be fixed today? I don’t know. I hope so, but at least I know I got the ball rolling in the right direction now. If there’s something more I have to do, I’m prepared to take those steps to see the task through to completion. But you know what? It all startes with the DECISION to take ACTION. That’s why I love BeachBody’s little slogan (the company that puts out p90x which I am doing)…
Decide. Commit. Succeed
It really is as elementary as that. You can accomplish so much by doing those first two things….making a decision about what it is you want and what you’re going to do, then committing to it day in and day out even if you don’t feel like it. You can know that you want something or know that you want to do it, but that can be light-years away from actually making the decision to get up and DO it. Make the decision to improve then commit to doing something every day to get yourself closer to that goal. The success part can’t help but follow.
Where can you use a little “P90X” in your life, your game? P90X is not a fly by night type of program. It’s not for the weak. It’s not for the unmotivated. It’s not for the uncommited or those who are “hoping” to change their fitness and their lives. It’s for serious, committed, motivated, mentally tough people who are willing and ready to face the challenges it throws at them and take their “game” to the next level. It’s for those are are ready to throw excuses aside and “get busy!”
So…What’s that one thing you’ve been pushing to the back of your mind? That you know you need to take care of or make a change in? What is it that you’re going to get up off your butt about today?
