So I wanted to talk about excuses this morning. Chase just did a book report for me on a book that he read in Grant Cardone’s the 10X Rule. If you haven’t read it, it’s a great book. Chase wrote down, “Excuses are not the reason why you did or didn’t do something, but rather a revision of the facts to make you feel better about why you did it.”. And I thought that was freaking spot on. I’m out here playing with ball with Maverick today.

The excuses, everybody’s heard it, everybody’s got one and they all stink, right? Once you learn that excuses do you no good. Excuses only make you look foolish. Excuses only make you look like you don’t know what you’re doing. Start to embrace it, if you screw up, you screwed up, right? A long time ago, I made a mistake back when I was a police officer and my Sergeant called me out on it and I started to give him an excuse on why what happened, happened. He goes, shut the folk up. And I said, oh yes sir. He said, I want to hear three things out of you. I fulked up, I learned from it, and it won’t happen again. I paused for half a second and I said, I fulked up, I learned from it, and it won’t happen again. He’s like, no it won’t. And that stuck with me, 20 years later that stuck with me.

So stop making excuses, start embracing your mistakes, learn from them, don’t push them off on somebody else. Dropped this ball in the water. So now I got to go fishing. He’s not going to make an excuse on why he dropped the ball though, but I hope you’re having fulking fantastic day and stop making excuses.