No Excuses, Suck it Up!

So this post is a day late and well, prob­a­bly a dol­lar short, but here it is. I’ve had a very busy last cou­ple weeks. That was actu­ally the inspi­ra­tion for this post. You see, I could talk to you all day long about why I haven’t been able to get as much work done lately. I could tell you that I’ve been very tired, or that the fam­ily has been very dis­tract­ing (I love them, hon­est!), or I could tell you about how we have been car hunting.

I could tell you all kinds of rea­sons why my per­for­mance has been slack­ing. But these are just excuses. It doesn’t mat­ter why. I still fell behind and try­ing to come with rea­sons to jus­tify that doesn’t make it any bet­ter. So I’ve decided to turn around and face it head on. What are the facts? I know I’ve fallen behind and I know there was some­thing I could have done about it too.

So shall I keep com­ing up with rea­sons as to why it hap­pened? No. It’s time to move on and get back in the groove more or less. I think every­one gets bogged down with every­thing once in awhile. It’s human nature and the busy nature of today’s soci­ety. And it’s not like those are all excuses that I made up. They are all true.

But instead of con­cen­trat­ing on why I fell behind, it’s time to light a fire under my ass and get back to work. And if I have any­thing to do with it, even more so then before. I got into mar­ket­ing and free­lanc­ing for a rea­son (a few actu­ally) and I’m not going to give up on it. EVER!

Mar­ket­ing, run­ning a busi­ness, isn’t always easy. There is a lot to learn. Both for the busi­ness and for your­self. No mat­ter how hard it gets, there are ways to make things eas­ier. And no mat­ter how many mis­takes you make, learn from them and move on. Don’t get bogged down by these points in your career and life. If you want an out­come bad enough, then just go for it. And never, ever give up.

~Chris

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