“The Power of Leadership”

Many people state that they should be doing better than they are.  Many times, a year or many years has past and yet a person has failed to advance much.  Read this Thought about alibis with caution and self reflect on your progress or lack of progress.

One reason a person fails to make progress is because they are so busy feeling sorry for themselves about how unfair the things are that are preventing their achievement that they have not enough time left for making achievement.

Eric Hoffer writes in The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements: “There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement, for an achievement does not settle anything permanently.  We still have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday.  But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving, we are fixed, so to speak, for life.  Moreover, when we have an alibi for not writing the book and not painting a picture and so on, we have an alibi for not writing the greatest book and not painting the greatest picture.  Small wonder that the effort expended and the punishment endured in obtaining a good alibi often exceed the effort and the grief requisite for the attainment of a most marked achievement.”

This is a profound observation.

“I had a great idea this morning, but I didn’t like it.” – Sam Goldwyn

Take a step forward today!

Shawn
Performance Institute – A Global Leader in Human Capital and Business Development

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