7 Excuses That Will Hold You Back From Success

Bernard Marr

Posted: 04/21/2015 1:54 pm EDT Updated: 06/21/2015 5:59 am EDT

I've written several times in the past about the qualities and elements that successful people share, but I think perhaps the most important is their ability to get past excuses.
So many people in life get hung up on excuses -- feeling they can't go out for the better job, start their own business, or take whatever risk because of... whatever it might be.

Excuses are like noses, we all have one. But when you can train yourself to see these flimsy ideas for what they are, and stop treating them as a brick wall in your path, you can move past them towards your own success.

Here are just a few of the excuses I hear most often -- whether from individuals about their own dreams or executives about their company's direction.

1. I don't have the money.
I've heard this at every level, from the bloke who has an idea to start his own business all the way up to the mega-corporations I've consulted with. The point is, you can make this excuse whether you've got one dollar or one million.

Time is precious! Educate yourself is priceless!

What Is Most Important?

20% of the food you eat creates 80% of the fat!
20% of your neighbours make 80% of the noise.
20% of the people in your office do 80% of the work.
This is the 80/20 rule. You'll see it everywhere!

Ted videos - How to kill our dreams

ted.com/talks/bel_pesce_5_ways_to_kill_your_dreams?language=en

 

0:11 I dedicated the past two years to understanding how people achieve their dreams. When we think about the dreams we have, and the dent we want to leave in the universe, it is striking to see how big of an overlap there is between the dreams that we have and projects that never happen. (Laughter) So I'm here to talk to you today about five ways how not to follow your dreams.

Hero habits: Clear communication

Waffling is for waffles – when you want something done, use straight talk.

I used to worry about hurting people’s feelings with my words. Then I got old and curmudgeonry and all bets were off. 

It’s not that I’m insensitive. I think I’m as sensitive as any man who likes Bruce Willis movies and good sushi. It’s not about that.

It’s just that I’ve learned unclear language gets unclear results. Clear communication does.

Change your words + 2 videos

How to be happy? - Inner space

Boost Happiness in Three Steps

Real life isn’t all rainbows and kittens, but real happiness is always available, even in tough times.

By Kelle Walsh | May 31, 2018

Amy Covington/Stocksy

Focus --> Self-care

What makes your day?

What do you need?

When your soulmate becomes another ex

14 Important Life Lessons You Learn When Your Soulmate Becomes Another Ex

By Bhavya Kaushik | FilterCopy
When I was a kid, my mother once told me that love is an inevitable force. I grew up believing her – even when I didn’t want to. As I fell in and out of love and lost myself in the process of loving someone else, I realized how “inevitable” love can be.

What if ...

13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do

~by Amy Morin, LCSW

Mentally strong people have healthy habits. They manage their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in ways that set them up for success in life. Check out these things that mentally strong people don’t do so that you too can become more mentally strong. 1. They Don’t Waste Time Feeling Sorry for Themselves
Mentally strong people don’t sit around feeling sorry about their circumstances or how others have treated them. Instead, they take responsibility for their role in life and understand that life isn’t always easy or fair.
2. They Don’t Give Away Their Power
They don’t allow others to control them, and they don’t give someone else power over them. They don’t say things like, “My boss makes me feel bad,” because they understand that they are in control over their own emotions and they have a choice in how they respond.

Describing a photo 1.

How would you like to be remembered?

About a hundred years ago, a man looked at the morning newspaper and to his surprise and horror, read his name in the obituary column. The newspaper had reported his death by mistake. His first response was shock. Am i here or there?


When he regained his composure, his next thought was to find out what people had said about him. the obituary read , “Dynamite King Dies,” and “He was the merchant of death”.

This man was the inventor of dynamite and when he read the words “merchant of death” he asked himself,”Is this how i am going to be remembered?”

He decided that this was not the way he wanted to be remembered. From that day on-wards, he started working towards peace. He the Dynamite King, was Alfred Noble and he is remembered today by the great noble prizes.


And you?

How would you like to be remembered?

Braintricks

True or false?


1. If you hear your phone vibrate or ring when in reality it doesn't, it is your brain playing a trick on you.
2. The rising moon seems to be bigger than it is, but it's only an illusion caused by how we perceive things on the horizon.
3. When an actor is substituted by a stunt double, our brain realizes it very quickly.
4. Recalling memories from the past can be difficult and even unreliable, as perception is often altered with time.
5. Being your own proofreader is the best, as your brain can find even the smallest typos easily in your own text.
6. Apophenia is when you find meaning in even the most random assemblages of objects, experiences and images.
7. Color has been found to have a large influence on how we experience food.

8. When people read, much of the focus given to individual words is on the order of the characters, so it is difficult to recognize jumbled words.

9. In cases where people are deprived of experiencing sensations, the mind will just start to make some up.
10. Those affected by mirror-touch synesthesia can feel the touch they see being given to another person.

But és and helyett ...

Hogyan legyen színesebb a mondandód, fogalmazásod:

If I were a boy - second conditionals

Formula for success in learning

This article lists key steps needed to build rock-solid knowledge for lifetime. Some points may be obvious to you, some may be new. Those which require further discussion provide links to further articles. This article is also available in Simplified English: Six steps to excellent memory

If you have found this place in the vast cyberspace of the web, you are probably not the one to convince that knowledge is power, and that solutions to most problems facing humanity could be found if we were armed with more understanding of how the world works. While knowledge is power, information can be overpowering. An increasing proportion of the population suffers from Information Fatigue Syndrome, i.e. from stress related to being overwhelmed with an unmanageable glut of information.

Top Benefits of Taking Music Lessons for Young Adults - Music Adviser

• →Top Benefits of Taking Music Lessons for Young Adults

Top Benefits of Taking Music Lessons for Young Adults

In a recent study, it was found that 95% of Americans believe that music is an important part of an education.
Learning how to play music is a skill that many people have, and others envy.
Many of us wish that we had picked up a music skill as children.
And aside from being a great talent to have, music lessons have many benefits to reap.
The positive impacts that music has on children and young adults will help them throughout childhood and adulthood.
Read on to learn the top benefits of taking music lessons as a child or young adult.

Music lessons improve self-esteem

Throughout our lives, we are always going to receive criticism. And often times, it can be difficult to learn how to take those criticisms and make them constructive.

Although, despite ...

Although, despite, in spite of, however: grammar exercises

Complete the following sentences.
1. We went out ………………………….. the rain.
a) in spite of       b) however c) although
2. We went out …………………………. it rained.
a) despite            b) although         c) however
3. She went on working ……………………….. she was tired.
a) although         b) despite           c) either could be used here
4. She went on working ………………………….. the fact that she was tired.
a) despite            b) however        c) although

Adjectives /suffixes

For and Against Essays - Useful expressions and linking words/phrases

 

  ***************

For and against essays

A "for and against" essay is a formal piece of writing in which a topic is considered from opposing points of view. You should present both sides in a fair way by discussing them objectively and in equal detail.
A good essay of this type should consist of:
a) an introductory paragraph in which you clearly state the topic to be discussed, without giving your opinion;
b) a main body in which the points for and against along with your justifications, examples or reasons are presented in separate paragraphs; and
c) a closing paragraph in which you state your opinion or give a balanced consid¬eration of the topic.
Note: Opinion words (I think, I believe, In my opinion, etc.) can only be used in the closing paragraph where you give your opinion on the topic.

how to say no without explaining yourself - Be stressless

90 Percent Of People Trying To Lose Weight Forget This One Thing

Could be why so many diets fail...

• Kate Bratskeir Food and Health Editor, The Huffington Post

12/04/2015 03:51 pm ET

 

Gym membership, food diary, portion control: Check, check, check. Clothes that fit, cardio, emergency snacks: Three checks again.

You think you know everything there is to know about dropping pounds, but a recent survey commissioned by healthcare services company Orlando Health proved there's one thing most of us are overlooking: our mental health. Blame this neglect for why an estimated 95 percent of diets seem to fail us.

A tale of Two Brains

4U

The Selfish Giant

Note: Oscar Wilde intended this story to be read to children

Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant's garden.
     It was a large lovely garden, with soft green grass. Here and there over the grass stood beautiful flowers like stars, and there were twelve peach-trees that in the spring-time broke out into delicate blossoms of pink and pearl, and in the autumn bore rich fruit. The birds sat on the trees and sang so sweetly that the children used to stop their games in order to listen to them. 'How happy we are here!' they cried to each other.

View inside me - The fisherman and the business man

The Fisherman & The Businessman

The Fisherman & The Businessman

An American businessman took a vacation to a small coastal Mexican village on doctor’s orders. Unable to sleep after an urgent phone call from the office the first morning, he walked out to the pier to clear his head. A small boat with just one fisherman had docked, and inside the boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish.

“How long did it take you to catch them?” the American asked.

January 14 - Treat yourself - TALK and AIM

If somebody is interested in English AND his or her personal development, I am looking forward to coming here:

Balance and result in your Career and Relationships & practising and improving your English. :-)


Do not hesitate to ask the details! (Magyar és angol)
xxx: Márti**
sundayfilocafe@gmail.com