The Dog Ate My Homework!

Hi! My name is Parissa. This is "Modern Badass: A Field Guide", where?Modern Badasses?can feel seen, understood and valued. And, it's also a place for others to crack the code on the Modern Badasses in their lives (and maybe learn some badassery themselves). Want this in your inbox 2x/month? Hit the “subscribe” button above!

The "dog ate my homework" answer is an excuse for not completing an assignment or not following through on a commitment.

Badasses have their own version of "the dog ate my homework" but for completely different reasons. They have excuses, stories and invented obstacles for why they are misunderstood by others. It's because they:

• don't want to see that they may be blocking themselves when it comes to continued evolution as leaders.
• don't want to go within at all because what's inside may be too hard to face, let alone address.
• believe it's easier to look at data than to examine the "soft stuff";
• think conversations about the "soft stuff" are a colossal waste of time; etc.

You might be chasing windmills.

I recently shared how I can predict with high accuracy when a Modern Badass will fail. See below.

The desire to find excuses is a lot like Don Quixote fighting windmills. In that story, he believes windmills are giants and attempts to fight them, even though his sidekick tries to stop him. After he's knocked off his horse, he claims that the windmills he now sees were somehow made so because of sorcery, not because he was mistaken.

No, I'm not judging you.

I've been there. I've authored many delightful excuses instead of going within and owning my Modern Badassery. I've done the same thing over and over again and expected different results. It's only when I chose to be (lovingly) honest that I was able to be seen fully as me as opposed to a manufactured version of me.

It would be natural for you to wonder where you might be on the Modern Badass curve. I've got you! Take the?quiz?and get instant results plus insights you can use. You'll find out if you possess Modern Badass?traits?and crack the code to highlight your brilliance!

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No More Excuses,

Parissa

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