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🗓️ 2 December 2025
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Micro excuses are the tiny, sneaky thoughts that quietly interrupt your consistency, sabotage your follow-through, and keep you from becoming the version of yourself you know you can be. They sound harmless — "I'll do it later," "today's not ideal," "I'm tired," "I just need to get through this week" — but these micro excuses compound into macro results: stagnation, self-doubt, and stalled goals.
In this episode, we're breaking down how micro excuses show up, why your brain uses them, and how to outsmart them in real time. You're going to learn the mindset shifts, narrative rewrites, and simple confidence tools that eliminate these hidden obstacles and help you stay consistent even on the days you don't "feel like it."
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever noticed how the smallest excuses are the ones that derail you the fastest? |
| 0:06.6 | Not the big life events, not the big emotional moments. |
| 0:11.2 | I mean the tiny ones. |
| 0:13.0 | The ones that whisper instead of shout. |
| 0:16.4 | The ones that barely register because they sound reasonable. |
| 0:20.5 | The ones like, I don't feel like it. The ones that barely register because they sound reasonable. The ones like, I don't feel like it. |
| 0:23.8 | The ones that feel like self-care or logic or being realistic. |
| 0:29.8 | Things like, I'll start after lunch. |
| 0:32.2 | I'll do that extra tomorrow. |
| 0:34.5 | Today's not ideal. |
| 0:36.1 | I don't have time. |
| 0:37.4 | I'll make up for it later. Micro excuses. |
| 0:42.1 | They're quiet, they're small, they're sneaky, and they're powerful. Because micro excuses don't |
| 0:51.0 | just steal your momentum. They end up rewriting your identity in the smallest, most |
| 0:57.1 | subtle ways. They teach your brain that goals are just optional, that commitments are just suggestions. |
| 1:05.7 | And the true reason is micro excuses with crazy is that's what keeps most of us stuck. |
| 1:13.2 | It's not a lack of discipline, not a lack of time, not a lack of motivation. |
| 1:18.0 | It's micro excuses. |
| 1:19.5 | And today's episode is going to change the way you think about excuses. |
| 1:23.4 | I'm going to teach you how to spot micro excuses in real time, how to shut them down, and how to build an identity that in which you follow through automatically, even on your busiest, messiest, most I don't feel like it days. |
| 1:39.7 | Because if you want your next level of consistency, we've got to get rid of the micro excuses |
| 1:44.3 | that are tripping you up along the way. |
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