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Those simple questions, as you can tell, shock your brain into realizing how rare a thing honoring your word is in this world. A simple truth: success is not easy. In order to honor your word, you must kill off all of your learned excuses. Trust me, excuses are all learned. The practice of killing off your excuses and your reasons for not honoring your word will be the hardest aspect of success you will find in the pages that follow. Killing off my own excuses has not only taken my lifetime but also is a daily adventure.

I have seen men ripped apart in combat get up and fight their way back to safety. I have seen marriages that could never hope to continue due to poor choices reset and begin anew. I have witnessed runners completely fall apart and break down emotionally and physically only to rally and finish 100-mile ultramarathons. All done by killing off their excuses and reasons and getting back to the foundational principle of success, which has always been to honor your word.

On the other hand, I’ve seen those with the most basic and minimal obstacles in life crumble because they excused themselves from doing the simple things. All across the world you can see examples of this, whether it’s in health or relationships or in their business lives. Taking days off being on point in health; excusing ourselves from the simple prospect of reading with our kids or even playing their video games with them; and even missing work opportunities because we do not feel like it. How do you learn to kill your excuses on a daily basis? The solution is simple.

Be the person you said you would be, no matter the conditions.

In each of the following chapters is a story and a process with step-by-step methods to build the foundation and structure for success. The experience of turning around the “wayward vessel” of my own life by recognizing my excuses, then being bold enough to share the facts, remains the most difficult story I wish to convey. The brutal challenge to be a part of other men and women sharing their “failure to success” processes is the second most difficult aspect of forming the stories within the following chapters. As we work through both the writing and the digesting of the stories together, I encourage you to be bold enough to read and to apply the processes and methods in your day-to-day life.