A brief accountability tip from Brian Tracy advising viewers to eliminate excuses and stay focused on goals by setting frequent reminders (phone, computer, automatic emails) and resisting the urge to rationalize delays. Tracy coins the informal term "excusitis" to describe chronic excuse-making and recommends a simple mantra—"back to work"—as a cue to return to task and persist until success.
Today's accountability tip Eliminate excuses. Set reminders to yourself throughout the day and week to stay on track with your goal. Eliminate any excuses to let any part of your plans slip through the cracks. We say that some people develop the disease of excusitis which is an inflammation of the excuse making gland which which invariably leads to failure. So set up automatic emails to yourself. Set reminders on your phone and your computer. Use whichever method works for you and your lifestyle. Continuously remind yourself of what you need to be doing at that exact time to achieve your goal, and resist the urge to make any excuses. Rather than that, just say to yourself, back to work, back to work, back to work. And this will motivate you to keep going until you succeed.
