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I realized yesterday that I had been using money as an excuse to procrastinate on a business-related task. I finally made a long put-off trip to the print shop, where I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I could get a thousand full color glossy business cards for $88. For some reason I’d thought it would be at least $200 – maybe even more – which made me leery of having my cards reprinted. I’d told myself that they were perfectly good cards, if not super exciting, and that maybe I should just use them up first before spending more money.

But the reality is that while my cards might be perfectly good cards for say, a book publisher, they are NOT perfectly good cards for my actual business. My cards needed to be little ambassadors that showcased some of my work, and they weren’t. So I spent months with “consider new business cards” on my to-do list, using money as an excuse to avoid doing something that really needed to be done. I know it was an excuse, because I certainly could have called anytime in the past few months to find out how much they might cost.

Money can be an excuse for avoiding many types of things that we want to do. It’s fairly common for people to put off things like taking a trip, going back to school, or getting out of debt because they “don’t have enough money”. But I suspect in many cases that not having “enough money” isn’t the real reason. It’s usually something else. Sometimes we may not have enough money right this instant, but if we want something badly enough, we can find a way to do it.

Every time this has happened with me, I’ve felt so much relief on finally getting what I wanted done that I wondered why I’d waited so long.

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