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Excuses Begone! by Dr Wayne D. Dyer
	Extract from Excuses Begone!  Wisdom Note  Dyer is in effect echoing the wise words of Jean Paul Sartre when he wrote; “a man is what he wills himself to be.” “The excuses you frequently employ have taken up residence in your mind, which is dominated by your ego or false self; consequently, they won’t simply pack up and leave without putting up a fight.” Ha! That’s brilliant the programming requires some effort on your part to overcome. As poet E.E. Cummings explains: “To be nobody-but-myself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.” “Don’t underestimate your power to change yourself.” “The belief that they’re going to be hard to change is only a belief! Making something difficult in your mind before you even undertake the effort is an excuse. As an Ancient Taoist master said; ‘Nothing in the world is difficult for those who set their mind to It.’” This brings to mind H. Jackson Brown, Jr. who thankfully advised us “Never underestimate your power to change yourself. Never overestimate your power to change others.” Dr Dyer, E.E. Cummings and others have all told us the ‘hardest battle is with ourselves’ Similarly Carl Jung told us “Our most important problems cannot be solved; they must be outgrown.” Which is why Mark twain reminds us “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.” We must coax new habits and as Henry David Thoreau told us “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a single pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.” Dr Dyer urges us to;  “Remove any and all labels.” “Old habits of thinking stick around, often for an entire lifetime, largely because you create internal reasons to reinforce and maintain them. These reasons, which I’m calling ‘excuses,’ can become permanently lodged in your subconscious – they’re labels.” Recall Soren Kierkegaard’s “Once you label me you negate me.” Dr Dyer asks us to “Make a promise that you won’t be labelling or negating yourself anymore.” Subscribe to read the full Wisdom Note