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How Do I Stop Making Excuses? Name Them, Then Bury Them
Part of the series Month One: 31 Days of Hunting Down Every Excuse You Have Ever Made
Excuses survive because they stay vague. Say I did not have time out loud, in a quiet room, on a day you watched three hours of your phone, and it dies of embarrassment. The method: write the excuse down word for word, say it out loud, then do a ten-minute version of the thing it was protecting you from. Step The F*ck Up runs that exact funeral one excuse at a time, every day, for a year.
Write it word for word
Not the polished version: the actual sentence running in your head. I will start Monday. It is too late this year. People like me do not do this. On paper, in your handwriting, most excuses cannot hold eye contact.
Say it out loud
This is why every page of Step The F*ck Up ends with a line said aloud. The voice is a lie detector. An excuse that sounded airtight internally sounds like a nine-year-old negotiating bedtime when it hits the air.
Do the ten-minute version anyway
The excuse says the whole thing is impossible. Ten minutes of it proves the excuse wrong without debating it. You do not argue with excuses; you contradict them with receipts.
One per day is the sustainable rate
Trying to fix your whole character in a weekend is how January dies. One named, buried excuse per day compounds into a different operating system by summer. Related: the procrastination version of the same move and getting out of the rut the excuses built.
Step The F*ck Up
365 numbered pages of blunt daily practice: one truth, one mission, one line out loud. Two minutes a day, and Day 001 is whenever you open it.
Why do I always make excuses?
Because excuses work: they trade long-term progress for instant relief, and the trade happens silently. Making the excuse audible is what breaks the autopilot.
What is the difference between an excuse and a reason?
A reason survives being said out loud to someone you respect. An excuse does not. That single test sorts almost all of them.
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written by the author, at the kitchen table, after work.