Excuses, excuses, excuses! I'm going to be on the verge of sounding like a teacher with this one, but oh well here goes nothing.

Several times in the last week I've heard people say, "Its just so hard for small businesses right now, you know, with the economy and all". Is it really? Or is that an excuse?

Sounds like a fish caught out of Ole' Bull Crap Pond, if you ask me. I feel like, Americans have been blessed with such a great economic system that offers huge results from lackluster performances- and we don't even know it! We have been rewarded for complacency; fed for mediocre efforts. Now that things start to tighten down, and we have to fight a bit; those fat and weak brands will float to the top.

If we do slip into a (dare I say the "R" word) Recession it might just force a sense of pride and hard work back into small business. It could be a wake up call of sorts. Business would have to compete, fight, and work hard to earn their cash. Some will quit. Some will fail. Some will win. The sense of competition might be what our economy (and our character) needs!

Case in point, IBM made their largest growth, at the time, and became a Fortune 500 company during the Great Depression. I don't think Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM, was making excuses then.

If business is slow, is that really the economy? Or did the dog eat your homework?

Stop making excuses.

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