Excuses

Need to weasel your way out of blame? Or explain some strange behaviour? This is the book for you - for every type of situation, here are excuses from the historical to the hysterical.

"This book is about everyday excuses we hear for not giving excellent customer service and how to shoot those excuses down"--Page 1.

Black and Hispanic students are not learning enough in our public schools, and their typically poor performance is the most important source of ongoing racial inequality in America today—thus, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom, the racial gap in school achievement is the nation's most critical civil rights issue and an educational crisis; it's no wonder that "No Child Left Behind," the 2001 revision of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, made closing the racial gap in education its central goal. An employer hiring the typical Black high school graduate or the college that admits the average Black student is choosing a youngster who has only an eighth-grade education. In most subjects, the majority of twelfth-grade Black students do not have even a "partial mastery" of the skills and knowledge that the authoritative National Assessment of Educational Progress calls "fundamental for proficient work" at their grade. No Excuses marshals facts to examine the depth of the problem, the inadequacy of conventional explanations, and the limited impact of Title I, Head Start, and other familiar reforms. Its message, however, is one of hope: Scattered across the country are excellent schools getting terrific results with high-needs kids. These rare schools share a distinctive vision of what great schooling looks like and are free of many of the constraints that compromise education in traditional public schools. In a society that espouses equal opportunity we still have a racially identifiable group of educational have-nots—young African Americans and Latinos whose opportunities in life will almost inevitably be limited by their inadequate education. When students leave high school without high school skills, their futures—and that of the nation—are in jeopardy. With successful schools already showing the way, no decent society can continue to turn a blind eye to such racial and ethnic inequality.

Do you make excuses? Then start listening and help yourself by getting it done! Stop procrastinating and start living! These 50 excuses will be an eye-opener, as you may recognize some of them yourself (even I did). As human beings, we all make excuses, which is a softer form of lying, to ourselves and others. But facing the truth and doing something about it, help you progress faster and become more successful. In this book, I will point out each time: What the excuse is. Some of these will blow your mind. Why people use this excuse; the reasons make sense, some more than others. The cold, hard truth, something you may need to see things in a better perspective. And how to solve it. Things to tell yourself or to do in order to stop the lies.Curious yet? Then don't wait and start listening. These 50 excuses will surprise you, and the help you will get from the solutions and the truth, could help change your life.

Accountability is not a way of doing. Accountability is a way of thinking. Those who achieve greatness know true accountability makes all the difference between success and failure. Based on extensive interviews with accountable leaders—from Fortune 500 CEOs to Hall of Fame athletes—No More Excuses identifies the five accountabilities of successful people and organizations. These tenets encourage accountability in others and performance at the highest level. When you willingly accept and embrace the five accountabilities, you encourage accountability in others and empower your teams to achieve at the highest level. The result is an organization focused on its fundamental values and committed, at the individual level, to achieving critical strategic goals. Whether you are a business owner, a top executive, or a team leader, accountability starts with you and trickles down to everyone else. If you want to build an organization that achieves its goals and beats the competition it is time for No More Excuses.

This book is about stopping the excuses that have been stopping you from getting past poverty: self-doubt, low self-esteem, negative self-image, and getting off welfare. Stop being poor and broke.

Here's a no-nonsense approach to increasing productivity, performance and profit. This unique look at corporate problem-solving allows one to rid a company of the disease of excuse-making. As a result, all the accompanying problems--denial of responsibility, pessimism, procrastination, projection of blame, and reactive thinking--disappear.

Exorcising Your Excuses is a holistically based step-by-step approach in eradicating self-limiting excuses and unhealthy thinking patterns that so pervade our stressed out modern society. Learn WHY excuse making comes from an imbalanced body, mind, and soul, and WHAT to do about it! Learn the answers to the following questions: What is the true definition of excuses and how do they limit my limitless potential? Are my excuses subconsciously defining who I believe myself to be? Am I being limited through cultural, familial, educational, and other forms of mental conditioning? Why do I persist in behaviors that are self-defeating even when I am aware of them? How does nutrition, sleep, exercise and other lifestyle factors affect my mindset? Is excuse making a spiritual disorder? Why am I so negative in my thoughts? Can I harness the power of my Higher Self or God to eliminate my excuses and empower my thoughts? (non-religious) Can I reprogram my brain and permanently rid myself of excuse-making?