{"id":2802,"date":"2017-06-03T14:50:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T14:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2017-06-03T14:50:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T14:50:31","slug":"the-power-of-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=2802","title":{"rendered":"THE POWER OF \u00a0EXCUSES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Many People Dream of becoming a Better Person Than the Previous Year, Only a Few actually Do it.<br \/>\nWHY?<br \/>\nWhile Many People Dream of Quitting their Job and Starting their Own Business, Only a Few actually do \u00a0it.<br \/>\nWHY?<br \/>\nWHY Is It That Some People Are not as Successful as Others?<br \/>\nBECAUSE the Power of their Excuses are \u00a0More Powerful than their DREAMS.<br \/>\n1. FEAR.<br \/>\n2. I don&#8217;t have the Money (who has?).<br \/>\n3. I don&#8217;t have any contacts to start with (Really?).<br \/>\n4. I&#8217;m not smart enough (You have crowned yourself as a &#8220;mumu&#8221;)<br \/>\n5. I can&#8217;t talk (Are you dumb?)<br \/>\n6. I don&#8217;t have the time (Yet you have the time to wake up at 5a.m and get dressed in the traffic)<br \/>\n7. I&#8217;m too busy (Doing what exactly?).<br \/>\n8. It takes too long to build a business (But you envy Dangote and the others)<br \/>\n9. I&#8217;m afraid. Building a business is too risky for me (Is eating not risky? Is sleeping not risky, people have died in their sleep).<br \/>\n10. I don&#8217;t like dealing with people ( Mr Island&#8230; I greet You your Excellency)<br \/>\n11. I&#8217;m too old ( Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken, KFC, started at age \u00a065)<br \/>\n12. Waiting for all the lights to be GREEN (lights turn green when you press the button)<br \/>\n13. MY husband, my wife, my parents didn&#8217;t support it (They don&#8217;t support You to be broke either but You are).<br \/>\n14. My job is too demanding and I travel a lot (Arik Wings of Africa)<br \/>\n15. I&#8217;m not good at Marketing.<br \/>\n16. No, it&#8217;s Network. I can&#8217;t do it. (But you spread gossip but can&#8217;t spread a business that will better your life?)<br \/>\n17. I&#8217;m not a professional (who was born a professional?)<br \/>\nBut if they were the deciding factor, nobody would ever succeed.<br \/>\nFor every excuse why it&#8217;s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.<br \/>\nLots of people overcome these so-called limiting factors, so it can&#8217;t be the limiting factors that limit you.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not the external conditions and circumstances that stop you- it&#8217;s YOU!<br \/>\nWe \u00a0stop ourselves! We think limiting thoughts and engage in self-defeating \u00a0behaviour.<br \/>\nNow get up, get out and take ACTION<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Many People Dream of becoming a Better Person Than the Previous Year, Only a Few actually Do it. WHY? While Many People Dream of Quitting their Job and Starting their Own Business, Only a Few actually do \u00a0it. WHY? WHY Is It That Some People Are not as Successful as Others? BECAUSE the Power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5776],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}