You have an arsenal.

Not of weapons. Of excuses.

You've been building it for years. Adding to it. Refining it. Making each excuse more sophisticated, more reasonable, more bulletproof.

And you use it against yourself every single day.

Here's what makes your excuse arsenal so dangerous:

None of them sound like excuses.

They sound like wisdom. Like responsibility. Like being realistic.

"I don't have time."
"I need more information first."
"It's different for me."
"I'll start when the timing is right."
"I have to be realistic."

Say any of those out loud and people nod. They agree. They validate.

Because they have the same arsenal. And they don't want to look at it either.

This week, I'm going to dismantle your excuse arsenal.

One lie at a time.

Not to shame you. I had the same arsenal. I used it for years.

But because you can't kill what you can't see.

And right now, these excuses are invisible to you. They're so embedded in how you think that you don't even recognize them as excuses anymore.

They're just "the way things are."

They're not.

They're stories. Stories you've told yourself so many times they feel like facts.

The first step in the Draw The Line framework is Kill The Lie.

Your excuse arsenal has to die.

Not because excuses are lazy—that's the obvious stuff. The "I don't feel like it" excuses are easy to spot.

The dangerous lies are the ones that sound smart.

The ones that let you feel responsible while staying stuck.

The ones you'd defend if someone challenged them.

Those are the ones keeping you in prison.

This week, we're going hunting.

Every email will expose a different lie. A different "reasonable" excuse that's actually keeping you half-in.

By Sunday, you'll see your arsenal for what it is.

And then you'll have a choice: keep the weapons, or burn them.

Done negotiating.

-Joel