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CURE YOURSELF OF EXCUSITIS – Take Responsibility for Your Life · Motivational Podcast

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  Speaker 1: I'm going to live until I die, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to get life and death confused. Cure yourself of excusitis,
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  Speaker 1: the failure disease. You will find that the more successful
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  Speaker 1: the individual, the less inclined he is to make excuses.
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  Speaker 1: But the fellow who has gone nowhere and has no
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  Speaker 1: plans for getting anywhere always has a book full of
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  Speaker 1: reasons to explain why. Persons with mediocre accomplishments are quick
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  Speaker 1: to explain why they haven't, why they don't, why they can't,
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  Speaker 1: and why they aren't. Like any disease, excusitis gets worse
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  Speaker 1: if it isn't treated properly. A victim of this thought
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  Speaker 1: disease goes through this mental process, I'm not doing as
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  Speaker 1: well as I should. What can I use as an
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  Speaker 1: alibi that will help me save face poor health, lack
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  Speaker 1: of education, too old, too young, bad luck, personal misfortune,
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  Speaker 1: the way my family brought me up. Once the victim
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  Speaker 1: of this failure disease has selected a good excuse, he
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  Speaker 1: sticks with it. Then he relies on the excuse to
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  Speaker 1: explain to himself and others why he is not going forward,
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  Speaker 1: And each time the victim makes the excuse, the excuse
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  Speaker 1: becomes embedded deeper within his subconsciousness. Thoughts positive or negative
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  Speaker 1: grow stronger when fertilized with constant repetition. At first, the
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  Speaker 1: victim of excusitis knows his alibi is more or less
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  Speaker 1: a lie, But the more frequently he repeats it, the
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  Speaker 1: more convinced he becomes that it is completely true that
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  Speaker 1: the alibi is the real reason for his not being
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  Speaker 1: the success he should be. Excusitis appears in a wide
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  Speaker 1: variety of forms, but the worst types of this disease
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  Speaker 1: are health excusitis, intelligence excusitis, age excusitis, and luck excusitis.
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  Speaker 1: Health excusitis ranges all the way from the chronic I
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  Speaker 1: don't feel good to the more specific I've got such
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  Speaker 1: and such wrong with me. Bad health, in a thousand
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  Speaker 1: different forms is used as an excuse for failing to
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  Speaker 1: do what a person wants to do. Millions and millions
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  Speaker 1: of people suffer from health excusitis, but is it, in
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  Speaker 1: most cases a legitimate excuse. Think for a moment of
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  Speaker 1: all the highly successful people you know who could but
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  Speaker 1: who don't use health as an excuse. The perfect specimen
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  Speaker 1: of adult life is non existent. There is something physically
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  Speaker 1: wrong with everybody many surrender in whole or in part
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  Speaker 1: to health excusitis, but success thinking people do not. I'd
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  Speaker 1: resolve to live until I die. I'm going to live
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  Speaker 1: until I die, and I'm not going to get life
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  Speaker 1: and death confused. While I'm on this earth. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to live every minute and a person spans Worrying about
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  Speaker 1: dying is just one minute that fellow might as well
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  Speaker 1: have been dead. Worry about it and you may have
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  Speaker 1: real trouble. I'm not going to think myself to bed.
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  Speaker 1: Refuse to talk about your health. The more you talk
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  Speaker 1: about an ailment, even the common cold, the worse it
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  Speaker 1: seems to get. Talking about bad health is like putting
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  Speaker 1: fertilizer on weeds. Success minded people defeat the natural tendency
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  Speaker 1: to talk about their bad health. I always beg worriers
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  Speaker 1: to exercise some self control. Refuse to worry about your health.
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  Speaker 1: Be genuinely grateful that your health is as good as
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  Speaker 1: it is. I felt sorry for myself because I had
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  Speaker 1: ragged choose until I met a man who had no feet.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of complaining about not feeling good, it's far better
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  Speaker 1: to be glad you are as healthy as you are.
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  Speaker 1: Remind yourself often It's better to wear out than rust out.
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  Speaker 1: Life is yours to enjoy, don't waste it. Intelligence excusitis,
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  Speaker 1: or I lack brains is common. People suffering from this
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  Speaker 1: particular type of the malady suffer in silence. Not many
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  Speaker 1: people will admit openly that they think they lack adequate intelligence. Rather,
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  Speaker 1: they feel it deep down inside. Most of us make
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  Speaker 1: two basic errors with respect to intelligence. We underestimate our
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  Speaker 1: own brain power. We overestimate the other fellow's brain power.
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  Speaker 1: Many people sell themselves short. They fail to tackle challenging
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  Speaker 1: situations because it takes a brain. What really matters is
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  Speaker 1: not how much intelligence you have, but how you use
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  Speaker 1: what you do have. The thinking that guides your intelligence
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  Speaker 1: is much more important than the quantity of your brain power.
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  Speaker 1: Let me repeat, for this is vitally important. The thinking
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  Speaker 1: that guides your intelligence is much more important than how
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  Speaker 1: much intelligence you may have. Not even a PhD degree
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  Speaker 1: can override this basic success principle nearly always its attitude.
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  Speaker 1: We can't do much to change the amount of native ability,
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  Speaker 1: but we can certainly change the way we use what
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  Speaker 1: we have. Knowledge is power when you use it constructively.
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  Speaker 1: Closely allied to intelligence, excusitis is some incorrect thinking about knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: We often hear that knowledge is power, but this statement
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  Speaker 1: is only a half truth. Knowledge is power only when
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  Speaker 1: put to use, and then only when the use made
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  Speaker 1: of it is constructive. The story is told that the
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  Speaker 1: great scientist Einstein was once asked how many feet are
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  Speaker 1: in a mile. Einstein's reply was, I don't know. Why
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  Speaker 1: should I fill my brain with facts I can find
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  Speaker 1: in two minutes in any standard reference book. Einstein taught
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  Speaker 1: us a big lesson. He thought it was more important
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  Speaker 1: to use your mind to think than to use it
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  Speaker 1: as a warehouse for facts. The ability to know how
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  Speaker 1: to get information is more important than using the mind
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  Speaker 1: as a garage for facts. What I want around me
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  Speaker 1: are people who can solve problems, who can think of ideas,
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  Speaker 1: people who can dream and then develop the dream into
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  Speaker 1: a practical application. Never underestimate your own intelligence, and never
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  Speaker 1: overestimate the intelligence of others. Don't sell yourself short. Concentrate
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  Speaker 1: on your assets, discover your superior talents. Remind yourself several
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  Speaker 1: times daily my attitudes are more important than my intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: At work and at home, practice positive attitudes. See the
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  Speaker 1: reasons why you can do it. Not the reasons why
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  Speaker 1: you can't develop an I'm winning attitude. Put your intelligence
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  Speaker 1: to creative positive use. Use it to find ways to win,
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  Speaker 1: not to prove you will lose. Remember that the ability
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  Speaker 1: to think is of much greater value than the ability
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  Speaker 1: to memorize facts. Use your mind to create and develop
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  Speaker 1: ideas to find new and better ways to do things.
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  Speaker 1: Age excusitis, the failure disease of never being the right age,
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  Speaker 1: comes in too easily identifiable forms the I'm too old
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  Speaker 1: variety and the I'm too young brand. You've heard hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of people of all ages explain their mediocre performance in
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  Speaker 1: life something like this, I'm too old or too young
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  Speaker 1: to break in now. I can't do what I want
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  Speaker 1: to do or am capable of doing because of my
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  Speaker 1: age handicap. Really, it's surprise saying how few people feel
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  Speaker 1: they are just right age wise, and it's unfortunate this
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  Speaker 1: excuse has closed the door of real opportunity to thousands
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  Speaker 1: of individuals. They think their age is wrong, so they
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  Speaker 1: don't even bother to try. The I'm too old variety
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  Speaker 1: is the most common form of age excu sitis. This
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  Speaker 1: disease is spread in subtle ways, curing yourself of age
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  Speaker 1: excusitis often opens doors to opportunities that you thought were
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  Speaker 1: locked tight. When you beat down your fears of age limitations,
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  Speaker 1: you add years to your life as well as success.
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  Speaker 1: Old age is a failure disease. Defeat it by refusing
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  Speaker 1: to let it hold you back. Don't be age conscious.
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  Speaker 1: Your age won't be a handicap unless you make it one.
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  Speaker 1: Age has no real relation to ability unless you convince
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  Speaker 1: yourself that years alone will give you the stuff you
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  Speaker 1: need to make your mark. Look at your present age positively,
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  Speaker 1: practice looking forward to new horizons and gain the enthusiasm
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  Speaker 1: and the feel of youth. Invest future time in doing
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  Speaker 1: what you really want to do. It's too late only
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  Speaker 1: when you let your mind go negative and think it's
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  Speaker 1: too late. Stop thinking I should have started years ago.
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  Speaker 1: That's failure. Thinking instead, think I'm going to start now.
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  Speaker 1: My best years are ahead of me. That's the way
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  Speaker 1: successful people think. People who rise to the top in
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  Speaker 1: any occupation get there because they have superior attitudes and
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  Speaker 1: use their good sense in applied hard work. Don't be
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  Speaker 1: a wishful thinker. Don't waste your mental muscles dreaming of
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  Speaker 1: an effortless way to win success. We don't become successful
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  Speaker 1: simply through luck. Success comes from doing those things and
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  Speaker 1: mastering those principles that produce success. Don't count on luck
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  Speaker 1: for promotions, victories, the good things in life. Luck simply
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  Speaker 1: isn't designed to deliver these good things. Instead, just concentrate
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  Speaker 1: on developing those qualities in yourself that will make you
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  Speaker 1: a winner. I'm going to live until I die, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to get life and death confused.