It is said so well that if somebody speaks of lack of time, it means one of two things... the person does not know how to or does not want to and is being unabashedly untruthful! Effectively it is a skill thing in the first case and an attitude thing in the latter. But both situations are ones of excuses, as in a plausible case of being pre-occupied with other priorities, one would opt for real reasons not unreasonable excuses!
The syndrome of excusitis refers to the behaviour that finds all sorts of excuses to justify lack of action. So often we come up with unoriginal justifications for the unjustifiable. The person seized by excusitis not only wrongly believes that his stance appears logical, but also tends to be gripped by recurring excusitis in other situations as well!
It is common to hear excuses for not having called or visited due to the lack of knowledge about telephone numbers and addresses. In today’s age of information explosion, such excuses are most bizarre. When my mother wished to see her cousin whom we had no information about other than that he lived in Pune, it took just a few minutes with the telephone directory and a dozen calls to trace him down and visit him.
The problem with the overpowering impact of excusitis is that it blinds us from our own abilities. It makes us shirk responsibility and give up on our own competencies to face any challenge. Hence every time, an excuse arises in our mind, let’s opt to be better at taking charge of our choices, our actions or the lack of them! Escaping excusitis leads to embracing the ownership of our lives and our true potential!
Let’s BE BETTER at ownership of our every action...
instead of embracing excusitis as a regular reaction!
- Pravin K. Sabnis
Bengaluru, India.
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