Accept no excuses from yourself. You deserve better. You’ve had a difficult morning, afternoon, and early evening. Even so, as the day draws to a close you can revive your sense of purpose and re-establish your focus. When you find you’re offering yourself excuses for giving up or slacking off, don’t accept the offer. Instead, remind yourself of how precious your time is and of all you’ve committed to do with that time. Sure, you have the ability to talk yourself out of making the effort.

 

Fortunately you have just as much ability to talk yourself into it, and a lot better reason to do so. Yes, that effort can be complicated, frustrating, uncomfortable, and inconvenient. And it can also be highly rewarding. You deserve life’s best rewards and you deserve the experience of doing the demanding work to attain them. Accept no excuses, and give yourself the fulfilling life you deserve. You’ve walked the route a hundred times before, and yet one early morning it is radically different. There is a thick fog in the air, and suddenly the world is not the same. Though the trees, the buildings, the lights and the roads are where they have always been, on a foggy morning you experience them in a new way. Simply because there’s an excess of moisture in the air, you cannot help but see the world differently. The fog changes your perspective. And because of that change in perspective, life can feel more frightening.