Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Okay, my friends, with a new year on the horizon. Let's get real about something. Let's get real about

something. The most common excuses that hold us back. I read in a self-help book many,

many years ago that exquisitis is the failure disease. It's from one of my favorite self-help

books of all time, The Magic of Thinking Big, by David Schwartz. And he also taught me in that book that I read when I was 15 that in life you either have

exalts, sorry, excuses or results.

Excuses or results.

And he's like, I only care about one.

Everyone else can keep their excuses, but you have one or the other.

And that just, I internalize that when I was young and I'm like,

that's it. Yes, results, results, no excuses. And when I hear excuses, I always just want to challenge

them in a loving way, especially my own, because I know that I'm not always telling myself the

truth. Okay, so as a life coach, if you're in self-coaching society, you will have

heard these and we've got lots of fun content coming up in the coming weeks about what's holding

us back without us realizing it. But here are five excuses that I hear again and again. And I want

to provide a bit of context for each one in case you might be using it in a sneaky

invisible fashion. Okay? The first is this, I'm not ready. I'm not ready. And the reality is if

you're not ready for something, you wouldn't be tempted to do it, right? I'm not ready to climb Mount

Everest. It's also not

my desire, but that's just factual. So climbing Mount Everest isn't in my thoughts ever, right? It just isn't.

But if there's something that I want, but then, oh, I'm not ready, keeps popping up. I have to really

look at that. Because you don't have to wait. You don't have to wait if we're ready before you take a leap.

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