You can either make excuses or you can have results, but you can't have both.

Hey Cloderbugs, welcome back to the Clutterbug Podcast. I thought we'd have a really quick fun short and sweet podcast today talking about the habit of making excuses to get out of things and definitely this is

human nature we all do it but some people maybe myself included have a tendency to really do this all the time

constantly making excuses instead of doing the work. So in today's episode we're

really going to break down why we make excuses and strategies to break this bad habit so we can actually see results.

The biggest reason why we make excuses is because

procrastination, we feel guilty procrastinating but we also don't want to do the

hard thing and so an excuse gives us the ability to

procrastinate but with reasoning to alleviate some of that alleviate some of that shame and that guilt that comes with procrastinating so we will find any reason

to not do the thing we don't want to do it's basically like we're talking ourselves into why it's okay or why we actually shouldn't do it.

And if we really unpack this and unbury our excuses, most of the, it's not actually coming from laziness. It's not coming from the fact that,

oh, we just don't feel like doing it right now. More often, it's coming from a place of fear and anxiety, fear of the unknown, fear of making a mistake, that perfectionism mindset, and so we excuse ourselves from doing the hard scary thing right now so that we tell ourselves we're waiting until we're better equipped to do it in the future.

Or, yeah, we have more time or we have more money or we have somebody to actually help us or we have to do this before we can do that. We don't want to go out at order. We don't want to create more work for ourselves and we can be really convincing, right?

We can really, that's what we're doing, we're convincing ourselves that our excuses are valid.

But this can easily become a thought pattern

that can become a habit that we don't even realize we're doing and it's stopping us from seeing any

progress in our lives at all. I wanted to talk about this because it's really fresh in my mind. Not only do I make a lot of excuses,

let's talk about me first before I throw strangers under the bus. I have been making so many excuses of why I can't work out. I was saying I didn't have time.

I'm just way too crazy busy. By the time I actually do it, all right, I can't in the mornings

because I'll be sweaty and I gotta be be on camera and I can at night because I got to do all the housework because nobody helps me.

And on the weekends I deserve to just relax and I'll do it you know when I have more time I have to take something out of my schedule.

Like all these crazy reasons of why today's not a good day to work out.

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