Excuses are like a.....

A plague.   They’re like a plague!

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

George Washington Carver

Nothing good can come from excuses.  Whatever bad thing you did still happened.    The problem with excuses is they don’t allow you to grow.   We grow from our failures.   In sports most great athletes will tell you they learn a lot more about themselves when they suffer a loss.   It is incredibly easy to be great when everything is going great. 

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Benjamin Franklin

I’m sure you don’t have to think very hard to find someone in your circle of friends who always has an excuse for everything.    I have a friend who’s never been fired for a good reason, in his 24 years of working he’s had about 100 bosses that “don’t get it” or are “stupid.”     You know what?   Maybe it’s you!   Maybe it would be easier if you’d just work a little more.   Look at yourself and figure out what needs improving.   Because quite simply…. We ALL need improving.  

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

David E. Kelley

The stuff we come up with sometimes is pretty amazing.   I say all the time the #1 reason I let people go is attendance.   I have a handful of employee’s who have been with me for 4+ years and have maybe been late 4 times.     I have others who are late 10 times in the 1^st month.    They have great excuses.   But the bottom line is that as employee’s WE are responsible for being to work ON TIME.   If we don’t answer the phones Magazines.com will cease to be.  J