<p class="ql-align-center"><em>Once you try to use excuses for positivity, you are slowly adopting a positive attitude in your life, and this small habit can make you become a better person. </em></p>

<div><span><time datetime="2021-09-13T12:45:18+00:00">September 13, 2021</time></span></div><p>People use excuses in their life, and we always assume that excuses are bad that causes problems such as procrastination and cheating. This is because people always use negative excuses that are negatively packed with lies and fakes to fulfill their negative satisfaction. However, if you positively use your excuses, you could gain more benefits than you have ever experienced.</p><h3>What is positive excuses</h3><p dir="ltr">Positive excuses are the opposite of <a href="https://trenendo.com/identify-excuses-positive-and-negative/" title="Identify Excuses: Positive and Negative" dir="ltr">negative excuses</a>. These excuses are excuses that could help you in adding value in your life, rather than <a href="https://trenendo.com/learning-how-to-minimize-negative-excuses/" title="Learning How to Minimize Negative Excuses" dir="ltr">deducing the values that are caused by negative excuses.</a> Even though when you positively use your excuses, your excuses will bring positive effects.</p><p dir="ltr">Positive excuses help you reject the aspects that are against your goals, thus helping you to keep away from distractions. When you use positive excuses to <a href="https://trenendo.com/a-productive-life-should-cooperate-yes-and-no/" title="A Productive Life Should Cooperate ‘Yes and No’" dir="ltr">say “no” to your distractions</a>, you could <a href="https://trenendo.com/forget-about-grand-ambition-build-small-habits/" title="Forget about Grand Ambition, Build Small Habits" dir="ltr">focus on your goal at a time</a>.</p><h3>Event</h3><p dir="ltr">Positive excuses help you reject events that are not worth your time politely without making others<a href="https://trenendo.com/stress-makes-us-yell-and-vice-versa/" title="Stress Makes Us Yell, and Vice Versa" dir="ltr"> feeling unhappy</a>. These excuses bring a win-win situation — you could reject the events and focus on your tasks without offending people around you.<br dir="ltr"><br dir="ltr">When the events that you are attending do not satisfy one criterion below, it would be a better choice for you to<a href="https://trenendo.com/a-productive-life-should-cooperate-yes-and-no/" title="A Productive Life Should Cooperate ‘Yes and No’" dir="ltr"> say “no” to these events </a>with positive excuses.</p><h3>The events that are against your goals</h3><p dir="ltr"><br>If you want to become fit and healthy, attending a live talk that teaches you how to become smarter won’t help you achieve the aim that you want. Instead, use positive excuses to reject this event and attend activities that are related to physical health and wellness. </p><p dir="ltr">Attending a lot of events could help you gain extra knowledge. However, try to use positive excuses to <a href="https://trenendo.com/a-productive-life-should-cooperate-yes-and-no/" title="A Productive Life Should Cooperate ‘Yes and No’" dir="ltr">say “no” to those extra activities</a> that could not help you achieve your goals, or even against you. Try to <a href="https://trenendo.com/a-productive-life-should-cooperate-yes-and-no/" title="A Productive Life Should Cooperate ‘Yes and No’" dir="ltr">say “no” to those extras </a>so that you could have the time to <a href="https://trenendo.com/forget-about-grand-ambition-build-small-habits/" title="Forget about Grand Ambition, Build Small Habits" dir="ltr">focus on your primary aim.</a></p><h3>The events that you are not interested in</h3><p dir="ltr"><br>When you are attending an event, it is always important that the event that you are attending is interesting for you. Otherwise, you are more likely to waste your time taking part. </p><p>If you find a hard time rejecting an event that you are not interested in, why not consider using a positive excuse to reject this event and spend your time for an event that you prefer? Positive excuses allow you to reject these events politely.</p><h3>The events that are not beneficial</h3><p dir="ltr"><br>If the event that you attend are neither interesting nor in your plan to achieve your goals, it should at least brings benefits for you. Otherwise, you may do something that is wasting your time. </p><p>From the example above, even though attending a live talk that teaches you how to become smarter won’t help you reach your goal to become fit and healthy, but it will benefit you in another way. You should use positive excuses to reject the events that are negative and will not add value to your life.</p><h3>People</h3><p>Positive excuses are a great way to refuse the negative people around you, who are always against your positivity and make you less happy in your life. If these people decrease the satisfaction in your life, try to refuse them with positive excuses that won’t break your relationship with them politely.</p><h3>People that are spreading negativity</h3><p dir="ltr"><br>Reject people that always blaming and spread negative thoughts that make you feel uncomfortable. Your life is full of annoyance and obstacles that make the space in your mind becoming full. </p><p>When these negative mindsets add to you, you will become stress facing your life. When you find yourself unable to be a listener and handle more negativity from others, try to refuse them by adding their negative opinions politely with positive excuses.</p><h3>People that you are not interested in</h3><p dir="ltr"><br>Refuse people that you are not interested in instead of spending a lot of time dealing with them. Socializing is important in life for you to meet more people and build more bonds. However, using positive excuses to refuse people you are not interested in could help you save more time for your own life.</p><p>“Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.” — Jonathan Sacks</p><h3>People that will delay your goals</h3><p dir="ltr"><br>The ultimate hack to stay productive is by <a href="https://trenendo.com/a-productive-life-should-cooperate-yes-and-no/" title="A Productive Life Should Cooperate ‘Yes and No’" dir="ltr">minimizing your “yes” and adding more “no”</a> in your <a href="https://trenendo.com/learning-to-make-decisions-with-a-decision-making-statement/" title="Learning to Make Decisions with a Decision-Making Statement" dir="ltr">decision-making</a>. Say “no” to people who are the obstacles that delay you from achieving your goals is an important way for you to keep away from those distractions. </p><p dir="ltr">There are always people who will always discourage you from taking action, making you doubt your abilities and lose your confidence. If you want to <a href="https://trenendo.com/learning-how-to-make-money-wont-make-you-money/" title="Learning How to Make Money Won’t Make You Money" dir="ltr">stay away from those noises</a> that keep you <a href="https://trenendo.com/decisions-are-not-meant-to-be-procrastination/" title="Decisions are Not Meant to be Procrastination" dir="ltr">procrastinating,</a> try to use positive excuses to reject them instead.</p><h3>Emotion</h3><p dir="ltr">Last but not least, you should always use positive excuses to beat your <a href="https://trenendo.com/fix-your-fear-and-solve-anxiety/" title="Fix Your Fear and Solve Anxiety" dir="ltr">negative emotions.</a> Try to replace all your negative emotions slowly with positive excuses, and turn them into strong positive reasons that support your life.</p><p>“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” — Willie Nelson</p><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>“Adopting the right attitude can convert negative stress into a positive one.” — Hans Selye</p><p>Positive excuses are practices that let you use excuses positively rather than using them to do negative activities. Once you try to use excuses for positivity, you are slowly adopting a positive attitude in your life, and this small habit can make you become a better person. Instead of making yourself a negative person who is always under stress and depression, would it be better to upgrade yourself towards positivity and optimism?</p><p>“When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective.” — Harvey Mackay</p>

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<p>People use excuses in their life, and we always assume that excuses are bad that causes problems such as procrastination and cheating. This is because people always use negative excuses that are negatively packed with lies and fakes to fulfill their negative satisfaction. However, if you positively use your excuses, you could gain more benefits than you have ever experienced. </p>

<p>Positive excuses are the opposite of <a href="https://trenendo.com/identify-excuses-positive-and-negative/">negative excuses </a>. These excuses are excuses that could help you in adding value in your life, rather than <a href="https://trenendo.com/learning-how-to-minimize-negative-excuses/">deducing the values that are caused by negative excuses. </a>Even though when you positively use your excuses, your excuses will bring positive effects. </p>

<p>Positive excuses help you reject the aspects that are against your goals, thus helping you to keep away from distractions. When you use positive excuses to <a href="https://trenendo.com/a-productive-life-should-cooperate-yes-and-no/">say “no” to your distractions </a>, you could <a href="https://trenendo.com/forget-about-grand-ambition-build-small-habits/">focus on your goal at a time </a>. </p>

<p>Positive excuses help you reject events that are not worth your time politely without making others<a href="https://trenendo.com/stress-makes-us-yell-and-vice-versa/">feeling unhappy </a>. These excuses bring a win-win situation — you could reject the events and focus on your tasks without offending people around you.<br><br>When the events that you are attending do not satisfy one criterion below, it would be a better choice for you to<a href="https://trenendo.com/a-productive-life-should-cooperate-yes-and-no/">say “no” to these events </a>with positive excuses. </p>

<p><br>If you want to become fit and healthy, attending a live talk that teaches you how to become smarter won’t help you achieve the aim that you want. Instead, use positive excuses to reject this event and attend activities that are related to physical health and wellness. </p>

<p>Attending a lot of events could help you gain extra knowledge. However, try to use positive excuses to <a href="https://trenendo.com/a-productive-life-should-cooperate-yes-and-no/">say “no” to those extra activities </a>that could not help you achieve your goals, or even against you. Try to <a href="https://trenendo.com/a-productive-life-should-cooperate-yes-and-no/">say “no” to those extras </a>so that you could have the time to <a href="https://trenendo.com/forget-about-grand-ambition-build-small-habits/">focus on your primary aim. </a> </p>

The events that you are not interested in

<p><br>When you are attending an event, it is always important that the event that you are attending is interesting for you. Otherwise, you are more likely to waste your time taking part. </p>

<p>If you find a hard time rejecting an event that you are not interested in, why not consider using a positive excuse to reject this event and spend your time for an event that you prefer? Positive excuses allow you to reject these events politely. </p>

<p><br>If the event that you attend are neither interesting nor in your plan to achieve your goals, it should at least brings benefits for you. Otherwise, you may do something that is wasting your time. </p>

<p>From the example above, even though attending a live talk that teaches you how to become smarter won’t help you reach your goal to become fit and healthy, but it will benefit you in another way. You should use positive excuses to reject the events that are negative and will not add value to your life. </p>

<p>Positive excuses are a great way to refuse the negative people around you, who are always against your positivity and make you less happy in your life. If these people decrease the satisfaction in your life, try to refuse them with positive excuses that won’t break your relationship with them politely. </p>

<p><br>Reject people that always blaming and spread negative thoughts that make you feel uncomfortable. Your life is full of annoyance and obstacles that make the space in your mind becoming full. </p>

<p>When these negative mindsets add to you, you will become stress facing your life. When you find yourself unable to be a listener and handle more negativity from others, try to refuse them by adding their negative opinions politely with positive excuses. </p>

<p><br>Refuse people that you are not interested in instead of spending a lot of time dealing with them. Socializing is important in life for you to meet more people and build more bonds. However, using positive excuses to refuse people you are not interested in could help you save more time for your own life. </p>

<p>“Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.” — Jonathan Sacks </p>

<p><br>The ultimate hack to stay productive is by <a href="https://trenendo.com/a-productive-life-should-cooperate-yes-and-no/">minimizing your “yes” and adding more “no” </a>in your <a href="https://trenendo.com/learning-to-make-decisions-with-a-decision-making-statement/">decision-making </a>. Say “no” to people who are the obstacles that delay you from achieving your goals is an important way for you to keep away from those distractions. </p>

<p>There are always people who will always discourage you from taking action, making you doubt your abilities and lose your confidence. If you want to <a href="https://trenendo.com/learning-how-to-make-money-wont-make-you-money/">stay away from those noises </a>that keep you <a href="https://trenendo.com/decisions-are-not-meant-to-be-procrastination/">procrastinating, </a>try to use positive excuses to reject them instead. </p>

<p>Last but not least, you should always use positive excuses to beat your <a href="https://trenendo.com/fix-your-fear-and-solve-anxiety/">negative emotions. </a>Try to replace all your negative emotions slowly with positive excuses, and turn them into strong positive reasons that support your life. </p>

<p>“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” — Willie Nelson </p>

<p>“Adopting the right attitude can convert negative stress into a positive one.” — Hans Selye </p>

<p>Positive excuses are practices that let you use excuses positively rather than using them to do negative activities. Once you try to use excuses for positivity, you are slowly adopting a positive attitude in your life, and this small habit can make you become a better person. Instead of making yourself a negative person who is always under stress and depression, would it be better to upgrade yourself towards positivity and optimism? </p>

<p>“When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It’s all a matter of perspective.” — Harvey Mackay </p>

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