Home Business Tips – Are Your Excuses Holding You Hostage? by Carla McNeil

How many people do you know that are caught up in their own story?  We all have stories based on our past experiences and events.  Are you using them as an excuse not to do something you really want to do?

I had a story that followed me for years, “Carla, you are so clumsy, we can’t let you do that it is too fragile!”  I heard that story many times while I was growing up and because I heard it over and over and over and over I too came to believe it.  Once I started building my home based MLM business in earnest I started to take my own self development more seriously.  That was when I realized that I was allowing that story from my past to be an excuse in my future.  I was making decisions based on that old story.  Self development has taught me:

“The only behaviour I am responsible for is my own!”

A strategy that I use to identify if I am allowing my old stories to hold my future hostage are:

Comparison:  When you find that you are comparing yourself to others, stop.  Everyone’s experiences are different.  The way you look at a situation will be different from everyone else.  We have all heard the stories about the “eye witnesses” to an accident can all tell a very different story.  The same principle works on you.  When you compare yourself and find yourself wanting you can end up in all by yourself in your own little “pity poor me party”.  The excuse then becomes your story and unless you realize what you are doing that story will become how you live that part of your life for years to come.

For me whenever that old “clumsy” thought creeps back in; I remind myself  “I am graceful!”

“In more than thirty years of working with people, I have yet to meet a successful person who continually dwelled on his past difficulties.” John Maxwell

Author – Carla McNeil

Now you can get your Free Instant Access to 177 Motivational Success Quotes! Go Here for your Free copy

http://www.retirewithcarla.com/FreeQuotes