The very idea of excuses seems to be in the air this week. Jeff McBride’s “Museletter” that will come out this Sunday (and which I get to edit) is all about making excuses in connection with your performance as a magician. A large section of my Wizard’s Way book and talks is about taking radical responsibility–the attitude that anything and everything that comes into your life is somehow your responsibility. And now this great article from Fast Company.
I think this is a good attitude take, especially with regards to your own limitations. I’ve been drawn to magic and the idea of magic since I was a child, and one of the main draws for me is the idea that magic shows us how to transcend our limitations. But excuses are ways of abdicating responsibility… and therefore a way of giving up power. In a sense, when you make an excuse, you’re agreeing to your limitations.
So: What excuses do you find yourself making? Too much traffic? Too busy? “I could never…”? Try and think of several times during the past few days when you made an excuse–if not out loud, justifying something that happened to someone else, then just to yourself. Something you intended to do, but didn’t because… Then spend some time thinking of how you might actually rephrase the excuse, or change your thinking around it. Instead of “There was too much traffic,” you might tell yourself: “I didn’t think to check the traffic report earlier that day, and so I got caught in that awful traffic jam and was late for my meeting. Tomorrow I’ll remember to check on traffic at least half an hour before I have to go, just to make sure I’ll arrive on time.” Now you’re in charge of your destiny, not “circumstances.” And that’s the Wizard’s Way!
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