But, if not, It seems that excuses are first thing we start looking for to see if we can get out of it, or find a real easy way to solve it. If we don't think of a real easy way to solve it, we focus on excuses to get out of it.

You Need Excuses Like A Kangaroo Needs A Purse!

If you believe you have some limitation that is holding you back, then you are making excuses. The only real limitations we have are in our own mind. If we think about limitations more than we think about how to solve it, then we have excuseitus.

Excuseitus can have a far reaching effect into areas of our lives that we know we can handle. But, it becomes so easy to "make excuses" that we will start making them all time, because now, it seems so natural to do so.

You can look at limitations as a sort of a test; A test of your tenacity. Fail test, and you get to take it over again. :>(. And over and over. Every time you get a zero you get put back in first grade.

Your Tower Of Strength!

And, guess what? Even if outcome is not what you wanted, you will feel so good that you pressed beyond limit, that when next test comes, you're more confident, composed, determined, and relentless.

At that point, final outcome is not real focus and goal. Then what is? Your faith and determination that you can press beyond any limits you have in your mind! When you get there, you'll start reaching for stars, instead of ceiling.

Go ahead; shoot for stars, what if you miss it half way? It's better than shooting for ceiling and missing it half way. Somebody said; what if I fail? So what! Join club. The thing can't eat you! Besides, you never really have a failure; you have only discovered another way that it wouldn't work.

Will Wonders Never Cease!

And, besides, I have experienced situations where no matter what I did worked. But, then something else came along and I discovered I was happier with last thing than I would have been with first one. Go figure.

Limitations will shout "you can't"! But, how do you really know if all you do is sit down and have a discourse with your limitations. They will win every time. Don't ever "reason" with your excuses. If you do, you'll come up with more excuses; ones that you thought you would never think of.

Your Mission In Life!

If you don't focus on your limitations and make excuses, you can take what little resources you do have and, just by beginning, you'll find many times that your efforts are making giant strides. And, you'll find yourself pressing beyond those self-imposed limitations.

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When my "important" work has been interrupted, and I feel impatient, I think back on Archbishop's story.

It keeps me from yanking and pulling on my protesting granddaughter when I put her sweater on her. I can pause while I do this necessary work and look at sheer beauty of polished skin on her arm, and freckles scattered on that precious and protesting nose. I can do my work with a loving hand.

If I'm putting on sweater to protect her from cold, because I love her, I can let her know this in way that I do it.

I want to acknowledge each of you for work that you do. May it bless and bring dignity to you.

For all times you dotted an "i", wiped a runny nose, sent a thank you card, listened to a trouble co-worker, took out garbage on a rainy morning, picked your husband's underwear up off floor for 100th time, crawled around on your hands and knees in dark looking for a lost "wubbie," calmed an angry client before they went into your boss' office, asked your friend, tenderly, if she'd considered that her son might be doing drugs, phone call you took after you couldn't take one more, time you really looked at someone's photo of their grandchild, fixed a flat for a woman you'll never see again, listened to an Ancient Aviator's WWII story, cleaned toilet, changed a dirty diaper, worked a piece of plastic out of printer, unscrewed a mayonnaise jar for your grandmother, smiled when there was no reason to smile and no one else was smiling ... and all other works of your life known only to you.

On this Labor Day acknowledge yourself for all those unnoticed labors of love you have done throughout your life.

And claim dignity of your work. Pause for a moment and appreciate to yourself love you have put into hardest, smallest, most tedious, demanding, most un-noticed and unacknowledged parts of your work, which is your life.

And finally, acknowledge yourself for all times you went for help and found your personal power by being helper and making your contribution to circle of life – times you coached your coach, shrank your therapist, placed your placement counselor, cured your doctor, healed healer, organized your boss, supported your support staff, led your leader, followed your followers, held your accountant accountable, taught your teacher, ministered to your minister, mothered your mother, fathered your father, and allowed yourself to be child to your children.

Happy Labor Day!