Making Excuses

You've made excuse after excuse, come up with lies and found truthful reasons for not doing something. You're out of excuses.... What do you do? Well I guess you can go about this from two separate perspectives.

1. You've been making excuses because you don't want to do something but it's not like you have to do it.
Its like someone asks you if you'll do something for them, you can say no, that is an option. But finding the reasons to say no without seeming mean are difficult. 'I just don't want to' can be a harmful answer, and you can only come up with so many scheduling conflicts. This one I'd say is the more difficult of the two.

2. You've been making excuses because you don't want to do something that NEEDS to get done.
You've pushed it off, you've made up reasons why you haven't gotten to it in order to justify yourself. If it has purpose and necessity in your life, stop the excuses, just do it and get it over with. I need to take my own advice in this category.

These two perspectives differ by whether you're making the excuses to someone else or to yourself. Its interesting that the one involving others is more difficult than lying to ourselves. Is it really that easy to fool yourself? I feel as though there is something wrong with that.