The vast majority of reasons we have for not doing something, or continuing a destructive, or unhealthy lifestyle, are nothing more than excuses, neatly packaged to look like reasons.
Making excuses is easy. We could make about a hundred of them right now. You could make an excuse for not finishing this article. Change takes time and effort, and a fight against the opposition, including our patterns of thinking and behavior, and those pesky excuses. It is time to set aside all of your excuses and start finding reasons.
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