No Excuses! The Power of Self Descipline by Brian Tracy
You've heard of Murphy's Law, which says that whatever can go
wrong will go wrong. Well, there's another law, which says that
left to themselves, things have a tendency to go from bad to
worse. When something is making you unhappy, for any reason, the
situation will tend to get worse rather than better. So avoid
the temptation to engage in denial, to pretend that nothing is
wrong, to wish and hope and pray that, whatever it is, it will
go away and you won't have to do anything. The fact is that it
probably will get worse before it gets better and that
ultimately you will need to face the situation and do something
about it.  There's an old saying that you can't solve a problem
on the level that you meet it. This means that wrestling with a
challenge is usually fruitless and frustrating. For example, if
two people who are in a relationship together are constantly
fighting and negotiating and looking for some way to resolve
their difficulties, the