OVERCOMING OBSTACLES AND EMBRACING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
“FIFTY-SEVEN” FAMOUS ALIBIS By Old Man IF
The world wants to know only one thing–HAVE YOU ACHIEVED SUCCESS?
- 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 ***