No Excuse for Such Behavior

Monday Mountain
October 3, 2016

Toxic Logic:

Making Excuses in Order to Reason for Your Mistakes and Behavior

This post took me a while to assemble the courage in order to type and put fingers to keyboard, why? Because I'm about to point out something we all do, and it needs to stop. I was afraid of hurting some people's feelings, that's when I realized it was not for the sake fo their egos, I was refraining in order to prevent any problems with anyone else for my own sake. 

We reward ourselves with calories for one workout. We tell ourselves that we will do it later. We justify our actions based on those of others. Each of those is an example of how we make excuses for doing things that actually hold back the progress of ourselves towards a better version of ourselves that we desire. As humans, the relationship we have with laziness has become a parasitic one, and it only hurts us more we go to it. I'm just as guilty of this as anyone else is.

Laziness is our argument for balance, we argue it for once we complete our hard work and complete that one task, that reward does not arrive after a singular day. The time earned to be lazy is not a one-for-one exchange once you apply yourself. "Downtime" is earned more at a rate like interest is returned to investments, a small incremental return on investment over time. 

Yes, everyone deserves a vacation or a lazy Sunday, but not every single day. If every day were a vacation, then you'd never truly appreciate what you have and you'd never understand what hard work really earns. 

Similar to the argument that laziness is deserved after the minimal effort is applied... There is the reasoning of "Adulting", which really is a plague that feasts on a combination of Peter Pan syndrome and Millenial self-glorification, however, that is a discussion for another time.

Go into tomorrow and work hard, every day should be a show of good work and genuine effort. Proof that we are working towards our own goals and helping to enhance the world that those around us live in. What are good, hard work are you doing today? Why are you putting it off? Let's get cracking.