40 Bullshit Excuses You Tell Yourself

Mugsby Bogues was 5'3… that didn’t stop him from playing in the NBA for 14 years.

Nothing fancy here… just a list of 40 BULLSHIT EXCUSES that you’re probably telling yourself (and that I’ve previously told myself) getting between you and your best life.

1. I’m too busy / I don’t have the time
2. It’s just not me / I’m not capable
3. It’s who you know (and I don’t know the right people)
4. I’m too old / it’s too late / I should have started earlier
5. I’m just not lucky (so I may as well not bother)
6. It’s too hard
7. It’s too far away / it takes too long to get there
8. I’m not tall enough / I’m not athletic enough
9. I’m not attractive enough / cool enough
10. I’m not smart enough / I’m not educated enough
11. It’s just not me
12. My kids take up all of my time
13. By the time I get home from work, I’m too tired or it’s too late
14. It’s too cold / it’s too dark
15. It costs too much / I don’t have the money
16. It’s my ethnicity, gender, color, or socioeconomic group
17. It’s impossible
18. The system is rigged against people like me (so I may as well not bother)
19. There’s no point
20. Good things don’t happen to me (so I may as well not bother)
21. I don’t know how to do that
22. It makes me feel uncomfortable
23. It’s not socially conventional
24. I don’t have the right clothes
25. I tried it once, and it didn’t work
26. I’m not in the right headspace today
27. I need to rest (a fine line between being true and an excuse)
28. I can’t be bothered
29. I…