Don’t we just love excuses, trying to justify a mistake, delay or failure or to make it seem less serious, in order to escape being blamed or punished.
I keep wondering why we so often attempt to make excuses for everything in our lives. Speaking of which, how come it is so easy to make them? When will we ever say, “No more excuses”?
Award winning gospel singer Solome Basuuta has taken to social media to share a valuable lesson that experience has taught her when it comes to laziness and making excuses.
“This lesson began when a friend and I agreed that I would write a song every week and send it to her on a Monday! And by every week, I mean every week!, So every Monday she’d (ask) me for that song!” Solome states
“When I started out , there are days I didn’t “feel” like it at all and sometimes I failed to send the song and tried give excuses like: “I am busy”, “I am not feeling creative” , “I am tired”, “I am not feeling good.”
“Hmm, she told me to write about how I was feeling! So I tried another excuse, “I will send it tomorrow, a difference of one day”
Just like it is for many of us, Solome laid blame elsewhere to feel okay about skirting responsibility, taking shortcuts, or even simply being lazy. All excuses have one thing in common: they enable us to avoid facing the truth.
How did Solome come to terms with the truth? “Discipline”, she says!
“Discipline! This word started ringing loud in me last year as different people spoke about it. However, in the last 6 months its been pounding in my mind,”
“There is a saying that, “Habit trumps desire!”. Oh, how I wish desire was enough, but alas I now see that habit makes that desire come to life,”
She says that right now, she is much better: “The songs are being sent every week no matter what is going on in my life… and……she no longer has to remind me,”
“I am training myself to be disciplined even with such a simple task so that when the big things come, I am able to stay disciplined and not accept excuses and laziness to crop in. Remember that “HABIT TRUMPS DESIRE” she concluded.
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