Reasons Vs Excuses

Part 1

This week we are getting into the difference between a reason and an excuse when it comes to not doing the things we committed to, or wanted to do, or said (maybe only to ourselves) that we would do.

Often our own reasons are valid but we can easily spot someone else's excuses. Sometimes our excuse was a legitimate reason once upon a time, and now we cling to it so that we don't have to feel the discomfort of the change we are seeking.

Excuses are about abdicating or absolving ourselves of responsibility. They are usually about other people (one way or another), and they make failure easy to accept in ourselves. The problem with excuses is there is no change as a result. We use them to avoid responsibility and that means we convince ourselves we could not have changed the outcome.