Be social/careful or careless/lazy? - A generation of couch potatoes
Questionnaire:
I. How active are you?
1. How often do you walk more than a kilometre?
Every day / Once a week / Once or twice a month / Very rarely / Never!
2. When was the last time you took any form of physical exercise? (swimming, running, dancing)
Yesterday / Last week / Last month / A long time ago / I can’t remember
3. Tick any of the following activities if you do them regularly:
Cycling / Watching TV / Playing team games (football, rugby) / Watching team games / Playing computer games/ Surfing the net / Walking in the countryside / Listening to music in your room / Playing outside ... in the garden...in the street ... / Going to a gym / Texting, chatting your friends
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.




