{"id":9888,"date":"2014-05-05T05:24:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T10:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trainingmag.com\/no-excuses\/"},"modified":"2020-12-17T14:48:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T20:48:47","slug":"no-excuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trainingmag.com\/no-excuses\/","title":{"rendered":"No Excuses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great people throughout history often fail, quite miserably, before finally reaching their goals, says international business strategist Dan Waldschmidt, author of \u201cEdgy Conversations: How Ordinary People Achieve Outrageous Success.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWinston Churchill lost every public election until becoming prime minister at age 62; Henry Ford went bankrupt five times; Albert Einstein was expelled from school; Sigmund Freud was booed from a stage,\u201d notes Waldschmidt.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIdeas, brilliance, genius\u2014they all mean nothing without the guts, passion, and tenacity necessary to make your dream a reality. But often, people fall back on excuses and give up on trying to reach their goals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Waldschmidt offers six tricks for jumping off the excuse train and forging the path to your goals:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Avoid the need to blame others for anything.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Stop working on things that just don\u2019t matter.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Refuse to let yourself wallow in self-doubt. You\u2019re alive to succeed. Go conquer.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Ask yourself, \u201cWhat can I do better next time?\u201d And then do it next time.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Proactively take time to do things that fuel your passion.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Apologize to yourself and those around you for having a bad attitude.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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