Which if are you hiding behind?

IF I didn't have a wife and family
IF I had enough "pull"
IF I had money
IF I had a good education
IF I could get a job
IF I had good health
IF I only had time
IF times were better
IF other people understood me
IF conditions around me were
only different
IF I could live my life over again
IF I did not fear what "THEY"
would say
IF I had been given a chance
IF I now had a chance
IF other people didn't "have it in
for me"
IF nothing happens to stop me
IF I were only younger
IF I could only do what I want
IF I had been born rich
IF I could meet "the right people"
IF I had the talent that some
people have
IF I dared assert myself
IF I only had embraced past
opportunities
IF people didn't get on my nerves
IF I didn't have to keep house and
look after the children
IF I could save some money
IF the boss only appreciated me
IF I only had somebody to help me
IF my family understood me
IF I lived in a big city
IF I could just get started
IF I were only free
IF I had the personality of some
people
IF I were not so fat
IF my talents were known
IF I could just get a "break"
IF I could only get out of debt
IF I hadn't failed
IF I only knew how
IF everybody didn't oppose me
IF I didn't have so many worries
IF I could marry the right person
IF people weren't so dumb
IF my family were not so
extravagant
IF I were sure of myself
IF luck were not against me
IF I had not been born under the
wrong star
IF it were not true that "what is to
be will be"
IF I did not have to work so hard
IF I hadn't lost my money
IF I lived in a different
neighborhood
IF I didn't have a "past"
IF I only had a business of my own
IF other people would only listen
to me
IF and this is the greatest of them
all I had the courage to see myself
as I really am, I would find out
what is wrong with me, and
correct it, then I might have a
chance to profit by my mistakes
and learn something from the
experience of others, for I know
that there is something WRONG
with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time
building alibis to cover them.
Building alibis with which to explain away failure is a national pastime. The habit is as old as the human race, and is fatal to success! Why do people cling to their pet alibis? The answer is obvious. They defend their alibis because THEY CREATE them! A man's alibi is the child of his own imagination. It is human nature to defend one's own brain-child. Napoleon Hill (think and grow rich)