Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.

Kelly here.

And today I want to talk about how to opt out of excuses.

And I want to start by asking a question.

What is stopping you from living your best life?

Think on that for a moment. Is there an obstacle in your jobs or an obstacle with partnership or

relationships with family? Is there an opportunity or a circumstance that you are waiting for in order for you to

live that best life? What is stopping you from living the life of your dreams right now?

And I ask that question because today I really want to focus in on how sometimes our own discomfort

with joy, with success, with happiness and healthy

dynamics, our own discomfort with that can have us creating excuses and barriers to living the

life that we want.

And as I always say with this podcast, there's nothing I talk about that in some way I haven't

experienced myself.

So by no means, is this an episode of judgment?

It's just an episode of awareness.

It is about having that uncomfortable but silent conversation that you need to have with yourself

to think about where are you making excuses and where are there opportunities to grow to have the

things that you want in your life and how much of our lives is discomfort is that fear from

feeling good or discomfort in having the good,

really the obstacle that's getting in the way of us achieving our goals. We're going to look at

things in a couple of areas. We're going to look at how we can be making excuses in our

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