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  <description><![CDATA[<p><b>Cancer doesn’t destroy your life overnight.<br>It spreads quietly… until it takes everything.</b></p><p><b>Excuses work the same way,<br>slowly killing the future you want to create.</b></p><p><b>Cancer doesn’t go away on its own.&nbsp; It must be eradicated.</b></p><p><b>Your excuses are no different.&nbsp; They must be eliminated.</b></p><p><br></p><p><b>That’s what this podcast is here to help you do:<br>Eliminate your excuses so you create the life you truly want to live.</b></p><p><b>Other podcasts and books have already taught you what to do…<br>but you’re not doing it or you’re tired of starting and stopping.</b></p><p><b>This podcast will present short, direct, daily episodes focused on one thing:<br>Turning your excuses into Bold, Consistent, and Effective execution.</b></p><p><br></p><p><b>No motivation, hype or new strategies to learn.<br>Instead, you’ll understand exactly why your excuses feel valid…<br>how they protect you from discomfort…<br>and why they’re quietly creating the future you don’t want.</b></p><p><b>Hosted by Mark A. Dulaney, Your Personal Drill Sergeant,<br>&nbsp;this podcast is built on this foundational principle:</b></p><p><b>Your most expensive habit is excuses&nbsp;<br>Your most profitable skill is execution</b></p><p><b>Mark won’t give you orders, but in about 10 minutes per episode,<br>He will get you to Boldly, Consistently, and Effectively obey your own.</b></p>]]></description>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[The secret to success was never a secret. It was avoided, sometimes at all costs. In this episode of “Excuses: The Cancer Killing Your Future,” Mark A. Dulaney exposes the uncomfortable truth most people spend years trying to avoid: Success rarely requires more information. It requires repeated execution. While most people search for motivation, strategies, hacks, and perfect timing, successful people consistently do what needs to be done — especially when they don’t feel like it. This episod...]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Your excuses don’t end with you . . . they spread. In this powerful episode of “Excuses: The Cancer Killing Your Future,” Mark A. Dulaney explains how fear, hesitation, avoidance, self-imposed limitations and your excuses are silently become generational patterns and curses to those you parent and those you lead. Your children watch you. Your family adapts to you. Your standards become their normal. The good news? Courage, discipline, leadership, and execution can become generational too. The...]]></itunes:summary>
    <description><![CDATA[<p>Your excuses don’t end with you . . . they spread.</p><p>In this powerful episode of “Excuses: The Cancer Killing Your Future,” Mark A. Dulaney explains how fear, hesitation, avoidance, self-imposed limitations and your excuses are silently become generational patterns and curses to those you parent and those you lead.</p><p>Your children watch you.<br/>Your family adapts to you.<br/>Your standards become their normal.</p><p>The good news?<br/>Courage, discipline, leadership, and execution can become generational too.</p><p>The question is:<br/>What are you teaching the people around you without even realizing it?</p>]]></description>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[You, the listener will mentally argue with me while secretly agreeing with me and knowing I am right. In Episode 04 of “Excuses: The Cancer Killing Your Future,” Mark A. Dulaney challenges the stories, rationalizations, and self-deception . . . Also known as lying to yourself!  Because lying to yourself is a form of excuse making that quietly keep you stuck. “I’m trying.” “I’m too busy.” “They won't let me.”  and . . .  The biggest lie of all “Even though I've never tired it, I...]]></itunes:summary>
    <description><![CDATA[<p><b>You, the listener will mentally argue with me while secretly agreeing with me and knowing I am right.</b></p><p>In Episode 04 of “Excuses: The Cancer Killing Your Future,” Mark A. Dulaney challenges the stories, rationalizations, and self-deception . . .</p><p>Also known as lying to yourself! <br/>Because lying to yourself is a form of excuse making that quietly keep you stuck.</p><p>“I’m trying.” “I’m too busy.” “They won&apos;t let me.”  and . . . <br/>The biggest lie of all “Even though I&apos;ve never tired it, I already know I can&apos;t do it!”</p><p>But what if those aren’t reasons?<br/>What if they’re excuses protecting you from discomfort, risk, failure, embarrassment, and change?</p><p>This episode forces you to confront one uncomfortable truth:<br/>most people already know what they should be doing . . . they just aren’t doing it consistently.  Because their excuses create clever, creative and persuasive lies.</p><p>If you’re tired of pretending, hesitating, overthinking, or waiting for motivation to magically appear, this episode will hit hard.</p><p>Because the hardest lies to stop telling are the ones we tell ourselves.</p>]]></description>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[What if I could predict your future based on your choices, actions and words today?   That is what this episode will do for you! It will look at your current behavior and give you an indication of what your future will look like. Both Good, bad, ugly and Great! Listen at your own risk and if you dare. ]]></itunes:summary>
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