153. Create excuses or create change. You decide

Do You F*cking Mind?

Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 915 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In this episode I go into why we make excuses, why it is detrimental for us and I give 9 tips to help you become more accountable so you stop making excuses and start taking action instead.

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0:00.0	All right, everybody, welcome to today's episode, my beautiful boons. This episode is all about excuses.
0:06.7	It's all about how to not make excuses. And if you're going to make excuses, how to approach it
0:13.0	differently. Because you're going to realize that most of the reason why we don't do the things we do
0:18.4	or why we continue to repeat these same patterns is because
0:21.7	we are in this state of denial. A lot of the excuses that we make don't serve us at all,
0:28.7	but we do it to avoid discomfort. We do it to avoid awkward situations or being vulnerable
0:35.3	or something that we're fearful of. So we're always avoiding,
0:38.9	avoiding, avoiding, avoiding making all these excuses. And at the end of the day, the person that gets
0:43.2	hurt, the person that doesn't grow, the person that doesn't learn or change is you. Now, these
0:48.7	excuses are around things that you don't do that you wish you did, like a routine, exercising, something towards
0:55.7	your career. But they're also around excusing your behaviour to kind of negative or damaging
1:00.4	things that you have done instead of owning your behaviour toward yourself and also to other people.
1:06.6	So that is what this episode is going to be about. I'm going to give you some things to think about,
1:10.5	some tools, some actual steps that you can do to help you kind of navigate how it is and when
1:16.7	it is that you form an excuse. And hopefully by the end of this, you do it a lot less. You become way
1:21.0	more accountable. And you're just, you know, better all round. You're a better person to date.
1:26.6	You're a better friend to have. And you're better friend to have and you're just kinder to
1:29.3	yourself and your future self. So let's get straight into the episode of today. There's a lot that I want to
1:34.7	get through and let's not fluff around. So why do we make excuses? As I said earlier in the intro,
1:43.7	there's a whole reason why you're going to make excuses.
1:47.0	The first one, and I think the most common one, is because you want to avoid discomfort.
1:52.0	You want to avoid doing something that's not enjoyable. It's doing what you don't want to do.
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