Excuses: 2,190 | Excuses That Make $$$: 0

How to go from being from overwhelmed to in control and closing more deals.

Author

Robert Biehn
January 24, 2025

The average person makes 2,190 excuses per year—that’s 6 per day.

What would your life look like if you cut that in half or more?

This email will show you how to work around or eliminate excuses in 5 simple steps, even if you’ve failed before.

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Life Sucks. But Here’s How to Take Control

Life can be challenging, and sometimes it feels like circumstances are beyond our control. However, dwelling on life's unfairness doesn’t change anything. Recognizing that both good and bad things happen can open up unprecedented opportunities for growth and success.

Quick Humility Check: More often than you realize, you might be the reason someone perceives their life as "sucks." This isn’t about blaming you for others' feelings but understanding how your actions or inactions can impact those around you. Focusing on negativity is a waste of time.

Your Duty to Make the Most of Your Time

Unaddressed excuses—whether positive or negative—undermine our lives. They often dictate our decisions, turning us into reaction-based, high-anxiety, and stressed-out individuals.

Are any of these excuses relatable to you?

  • Kids

  • Sickness

  • Day Job

  • Social Media

  • Conversations That Drag On

  • ...and dozens more

These excuses, both responsible and irresponsible ones, disrupt important aspects of our lives, such as health, purpose, and quality time. If left unchecked, they can KILL everything you love.

Here’s what I mean…

Excuses that you use to neglect spending quality time with your spouse…

…will KILL your marriage!

Excuses that you use to slack on reaching out to new potential leads/customers…

…will KILL all your future business/revenue!

Excuses that you use to sacrifice your physical, mental, and spiritual health…

…will quite literally KILL YOU!

Key Point: No matter how legitimate an excuse is, if something is important, we HAVE to find a workaround.

Good News: You Can Overcome 99.9% of Excuses

Even if you're not a time-management guru, even if you’ve tried and failed before, you can overcome excuses with a simple, proven 5-Step process. It might feel a little awkward and unconventional, but it works.

Step 1: Identify Excuses


Write down the top 5 excuses that you used to not work on real estate in the last week.

Example:

Kids were sick Monday-Wednesday and I needed to take care of them.

Step 2: Obvious Solutions


List the Obvious Solutions underneath each excuse (there might be multiple).

Example:

  • Kids NOT being sick.

  • Kids’ sickness not affecting your work schedule.

  • Not having to take care of the kids when they’re sick.

Step 3: Surface Solutions

Under each Obvious Solution, write down the Surface Solutions.

Example:

Kids NOT being sick

  • Eat better.

  • More exercise, fresh air, and sunlight.

  • Increase immunity-boosting foods and supplements.

Step 4: Deep Solutions

Under each Surface Solution, detail the Deep Solutions (this is where things really start to change).

Example:

Eat better

  • Every morning at 7:00 AM have a power smoothie with fruits and vegetables (aka, plan healthier meals).

More exercise, fresh air, and sunlight.

  • After picking up from school, stop at a local park on the way home and play outside for at least 30 minutes.

Increase immunity-boosting foods and supplements.

  • Research Elderberry tinctures to add to water during the day and sleep-time gummies at night.

Step 5: Accountability Partner

Have a committed accountability partner to check in on each other daily. This partner will help brainstorm, hold each other to standards, and achieve more together.

Example

  • A trustworthy colleague.

  • Your spouse (they have a vested interest in your health, work, and overall well-being).

Why It Works: This method rewires your brain from having reactionary, shallow responses to life's chaos to fostering deep thoughts and proactive planning.

Remember, you’re just one less excuse away from accomplishing something great.

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Watch the LIVE Replay

As an appreciative reward for reading this far, here’s the LIVE replay where I walk a large group of agents through how to workaround or eliminate excuses in 5 simple steps, even if they’ve failed before (and despite their different skill sets, backgrounds, and excuses).

REPLAY (←click. Starts after Step 1 due to a recording issue, but you have Step 1 above, which is the easiest step.)

SLIDESHOW (← click. View the slideshow used during the call.)

Drop a comment on the video and let me know what excuse you’re working around or eliminating and how!

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