<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/33ee9c8f-b138-4d43-a120-b0d8908bc13c/23A3805C-5778-454E-B59C-5669DADC9406/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.toach.net/blog/2006/08/21/the-secret-to-overcoming-any-excuse/" href="http://www.toach.net/blog/2006/08/21/the-secret-to-overcoming-any-excuse/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.toach.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.toach.net/blog/2006/08/21/the-secret-to-overcoming-any-excuse/"><P>Not <STRONG>action</STRONG> because of <EM>excuse</EM></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.toach.net/blog/2006/08/21/the-secret-to-overcoming-any-excuse/"><P>“I can’t go to the gym because I’m sitting on the couch.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.toach.net/blog/2006/08/21/the-secret-to-overcoming-any-excuse/"><P>Now if you are like most people, you might start to wonder about the validity of the excuse. I should go to the gym <EM>because</EM> I’m sitting on the couch. This example starts to show how the excuse - any excuse - is in no way required to be related to the behaviour being avoided.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.toach.net/blog/2006/08/21/the-secret-to-overcoming-any-excuse/"><P>The simple method is to use the word ‘and’. So you would change the structure of the excuse to:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.toach.net/blog/2006/08/21/the-secret-to-overcoming-any-excuse/"><P>Not <STRONG>action</STRONG> and <EM>excuse</EM></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.toach.net/blog/2006/08/21/the-secret-to-overcoming-any-excuse/"><P>“I can’t go to the gym and I’m tired.” “I would like to go to the gym and I’m too tired.” “I’m too tired and [would like] to go to the gym.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/23A3805C-5778-454E-B59C-5669DADC9406/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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