Defeating Excusitis, the Failure Disease.

The Reticular Activating System controls your attention, and helps you create a perception of order out of an otherwise chaotic universe. What do I mean? You may notice that you don’t pay attention to most of what you see, hear, feel, and think. For example, if you’re reading this sentence… you’re not paying attention to the skin on the bottom of your feet – how it feels, how warm or cold your skin is… or your breathing. You may not notice the rate of your breathing at all, if you’re reading this sentence – or did the fact that I mention it cause you to take a deep, slow breathe, and relax? You, like me don’t pay attention to much. You don’t, because you can’t. Why? And what does that have do do with excuses? And what’s the failure disease, exactly? More on that in a minute.