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🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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In this episode, I unpack how making excuses quietly kills momentum—and how to break that cycle for good. Sparked by a conversation with a friend who’s been stuck in his own way, I share five tactical ways to stop making excuses and start showing up.
We get into preparation, owning your time, and leading from the front—plus practical strategies like backward planning and thinking beyond the now. If you’re ready to stop hiding behind reasons and start taking control, this one’s for you.
CHAPTERS
02:15 Setting the Stage: Personal Reflections and Realizations
06:20 The Importance of Time Management
08:09 Ironman Prep: Challenges and Strategies
11:07 Point #1
25:52 Point #2
34:09 Point #3
42:54 Point #4
53:53 Point #5
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of the podcast. |
0:11.2 | This episode's working title is, it's a call to action. Listen to this if you keep making excuses. And I've really wanted to |
0:26.3 | dive into this episode and this topic and this discussion. And what sparked this idea |
0:32.6 | is a few weeks ago I was talking to a really good friend. |
0:45.6 | And this friend has found himself making excuses for an extended period of time. |
0:53.3 | And those excuses have led him and distracted him away from his goals, his purpose, his mission, and the realization was it's |
1:00.5 | because of excuses, making consistent excuses for weeks and months and years. And eventually, when you keep making excuses, |
1:13.7 | and that in itself can become a habit on its own, |
1:18.9 | you habitally make excuses of why you didn't, |
1:23.0 | why you can't, why you won't, why you shouldn't, |
1:27.3 | when that becomes habitual, it turns into this |
1:32.1 | ever revolving wheel of not getting to where you want to be. And there has to be a moment in time, |
1:40.4 | something that happens, sometimes for better or worse, |
1:44.9 | it makes you realize, |
1:45.9 | I have to stop making excuses. |
1:50.2 | And I had a conversation with this friend, |
1:53.2 | and during this conversation, |
1:54.6 | I kept thinking to myself, |
1:56.1 | there's probably so many other people |
1:58.8 | who are experiencing this |
2:00.3 | that could benefit from something, |
2:05.4 | some sort of resource and guide and tool to help them stop making excuses. |
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