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This Thursday’s essay is “Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.” Things have been made too easy for us. Food is as close as the nearest drive-thru, information arrives with a mere keystroke, music of our choice is on the iPod, a family or friend contact is on the cell phone, delicious snacks and beverages are available to suit every taste, and a wide array of amusing, entertaining, and captivating play-diversions are available to occupy any extra moment in our busy, fully-occupied, consumer-oriented lives. We are easily distracted, amused, and entertained — and excuses give us the permission, time, and reason to enjoy it all!

Share your And Then Some Story about excuses. Are you a person who has built a house of failure based on excuses? We would love to hear your story? Do you have a friend, a family member, a neighbor, or someone you just know from a distance who has done so? Feel free to use a pseudonym for the person’s real name. What are some of the most-often used excuses that you hear? Where do you think the whole experienced of an “excuse-based existence” begins? How does it get rooted in our psyche to the extent that it controls and governs our behavior? Let us know what you think.

And Then Some Essay - May 20, 2008
Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure
by Richard L. Weaver II

Excerpt:
Education isn’t alone in making people experts when it comes to using excuses. What it does is embed the process deeply in peoples’ psyches. The problem isn’t that difficult to discover; nobody wants to take responsibility for their problems or failures. Excuses are simply ploys to divert attention from themselves. Marcus Stroup clarified the problem in his quotation, “There aren’t nearly enough crutches in the world for all the lame excuses.”
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