Ubiquitous it is. Destructive behavior is everywhere. People are lost in addiction of every kind, stuck in cycles of bad habits and/or paralyzed by an inability to go forward in life. They typically talk about what they "will do," "someday," but all too often those words and sentiments fall on deaf ears... primarily their own. Why?

Well, in lieu of the years it takes to look inward and raise consciousness, there is another, more tangible clue right out in the open; and it comes in the form of excuses. We can make them for just about everything. Staying in an unhealthy relationship. Eating food that is bad for us, but makes us feel good. Drinking. Smoking. Shopping. Gambling. Overeating.  Surfing the Internet.  Facebooking.  Starving. Purging. Sexing. Working. Failure to try. Fear of success. And the list goes on and on and on. There is a bogeyman in all of us that can justify any of it, and then some. That, in the end, turns out to be the most dangerous habit of all.