A courageous look at Excuses

How do you excuse yourself? One of the ways we play small and sell ourselves short, is we excuse ourselves from acting courageously. We stop ourselves by coming up with excuses that let us off the hook. Often this is an unconscious process, and so we buy into our own excuse-making and rationalize our way to holding ourselves back. As we strive to live courageously, we will do well to have the knowledge and ability to differentiate real constraints and…