This is Why You Should Not Give Excuses

Give not! It is not a gift

“The easiest thing in the world is to come up with an excuse not to do something.” David Copperfield

David Copperfield’s quote is one of the greatest quotes I have come across on giving excuses. There are great lessons we can draw home from it. There is no better way of defining excuses than saying; it is the failure to deliver plus the bags of reasons why we fail to deliver.

First, excuses are incubated when we see what we are supposed to do and fail to do it. It is given when we are asked why we failed to do the needful. There are many reasons why we should not give excuses.

Excuses are no gift. Don’t give it to anyone.

Excuses are no task. Don't let it engage you.

Excuses pay no wages. Don't be her apprentice.

Giving excuses is the easiest thing on this earth. It is easier than any task we can think of. We are not created to settle for the lesser.

Excuses never go when we welcome it. It is always coming up. It sits at the topmost head that no other task can occupy the same space with it.

An excuse only comes when nothing is done. It is an agent of not doing something. Its song is; “do nothing”.

Excuses live in the world with humans. If you allow it, it goes around with you. It presents as security and defense for failure but it does no good to anybody. It is a false defense.

Those who always come up with excuses for not doing something go home without getting something. This is why you shouldn't give it. It is not a gift.