“Life begins when excuses end,” Loren Ridinger.  Short and sweet.  If we are ready to begin a new venture, we have to put away the old.  We have to cut ties with what prevents us from getting where we want to be.  When we pick up the pen and start giving direction, our story unfolds.  Living for someone else under their rules and working toward their dreams is like living in a dream state.  We are there and present but we aren’t in control.  What is the point of having a beating heart and a functioning body if we aren’t going to listen to the very thing that sets our rhythm in this world?  If we constantly choose to do something other than what we want to do, we prevent ourselves from experiencing those possibilities. 

We come alive when we listen to ourselves so we have to carefully consider what an excuse is.  There are legitimate circumstances that may prevent us from getting what we set out for but we have to be honest and question what it is that stops us.  Is there something we are afraid of?  Are we believing something that isn’t ours to believe?  When we stop telling ourselves we can’t, suddenly we can.  The life we want is on the other side of what we told ourselves before and that can only start when we are willing to stop what didn’t work.