5 excuses that will get you nowhere

5 excuses that will get you nowhere5 excuses that will get you nowhereCertain excuses wont put you in a very productive mindset. Heres what you should never mutter to yourself at work or during the application process.I cant deal with this.Saying I cant certainly doesnt shine a light on your talents in a work setting. It seems like youre approaching things with a defeatist attitude, instead of working to find a solution to whats going on.Instead of simply saying I cant, come up with something that you can do in its place, or admit that you dont have the knowledge or expertise to get something done and recommend someone who may be a better help.I dont have time.Jonathan Long, founder of performance-based zugnglich marketing agency Market Domination Media, influencer marketing agency blerrp and co-founder of theSexy Smile Kit, says in Entrepreneurthatentrepreneurs make this excuse too often.Time is our most valuable asset, he writes. While we only have 24 hours in a day, we make time f or things we want - people we want to see, activities we want to do, etc. The only thing getting in the way are excuses.Im sorry Im late.After waking up late for the third time this week, you pull yourself into the car, step on the gas, and waltz into work late for the umpteenth time.Marshall Goldsmith, a business educator, coach and author, writes on his website about why giving an excuse for being late doesnt change anything.When youre late to an appointment and you hear yourself saying, Im sorry Im late but the traffic was murder, stop at the word sorry. Blaming traffic doesnt excuse the fact that you kept people waiting, Goldsmith syas. You should have started earlier. You certainly wont have to apologize for Im sorry Im early, but I left too soon and the traffic was moving along just fine. If the world worked like that, there would be no excuses.My rsum is just going to get submitted into an zugreifbar black hole, so Im not going to bother.This is an excuse used frequently by job seekers, Vicki Salemi - an author, public speaker, columnist and Monster career expert - saysin U.S. News and World Report.Thats like forfeiting a ballgame by not even showing up. You owe it to yourself to show up, Salemi writes. The applicant tracking system (better known as the ATS), will get inundated with rsums pegged to each specific job opening, but that doesnt mean you shouldnt apply.While it does help to have a referral so your rsum is flagged differently in the system for recruiters to easily spot, dont give up. Definitely apply. she continues.Thats not my job.This ones a classic.John Brandon, Contributing Editor at Inc. Magazine and Inc.com., writes in Inc. that this is one of the excuses that unproductive people rely on. He writes about how the people who really keep things moving at work dont fall into this trap.Ive written before about staying productive by focusing on your job and not doing the work of unproductive co-workers. Thats always a bad pattern to set, B randon explains. Curious, then, that the really unproductive people always seem to notice when theyre doing extra work to help a project. They focus on their role too much and on what everyone else is not doing.Truly productive people dont even care. They just do whatever it takes to get things done and plow ahead, analyzing the exact role definitions later, Brandon adds.