Welcome to the Sports Motivation podcast. It's your host, Niyy Shobo. It's another episode of bars where I break down excerpts from my favorite books, lyrics, for music that I listen to. Today's book, I've been doing a ton of bars lately and I decided to mix it up, focus on some books.

And I actually haven't been reading as much this year as I usually do.

This has been a pretty heavy action year for me.

But this book that I'm going to give you, break down for you, is actually called No Excuses by Brian Tracy.

So you guys don't know Brian Tracy, he's pretty much an OG in the personal development realm.

And his books are incredibly concise, practical, and it just makes so much sense.

I mean, you'll be hard pressed to not read one of his books and just have several

light bulbs go off in your head where you're almost like, that's obvious, but he just says it

in this very, very practical way. And so I want to read you something from page 193 of this book.

I read this book a long time ago, and I recently picked it back up just because it's one of those books that's good in terms of like just having around a house just to read

like a bathroom book, no disrespect. But you know when you have a book that's not as you don't

need to sit down and read it front to back. It's just bars littered throughout. So this is on page 193, and he talks about priorities versus posterities.

Posteriorities.

So he said setting priorities require setting posteriorities as well.

A priority is something that you do more of and sooner, whereas a posteriority is something you do

less of or later. You are probably already overwhelmed with too much to do and too little time.

Because of this, for you to embark on a new task, you must discontinue an old task.

Getting into something new requires getting out of another activity.

Before you commit to a new undertaking, ask yourself, what am I going to stop doing so that I have enough time to work on this new task?

Go through your life regularly and practice what he calls quote unquote creative abandonment.

Consciously determine the activities you are going to discontinue so that you have more time to

spend on those tasks that can really make a difference to your future.

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