Humans are remarkable at coming up with excuses. You’d think working in a high school, I would be tired of hearing the same excuses from students. However, every year, they surprise me. I always manage to hear one more I haven’t heard before… and they usually make me laugh.

What are they excuses for?

Reasons for not finishing their work.

At its most basic level, we’re always trying to justify why we didn’t get the work done. The justification turns into conviction and next thing you know, nothing gets done.

I’m not just talking about high school students here either.

To look past our own excuses is to be honest. When we finally get to that point, we know there’s only two options:

Do the work or accept what happens as a result of your choice not to do it.