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# A life governed by excuses keeps receiving the...
> A life governed by excuses keeps receiving the same lessons, while a life governed by self-confrontation keeps graduating from them. Confront yourself before you must be confronted, convert what you find into a plan, and let the strength you gain flow outward into the people around you. Accountability begins as honesty with yourself and ends as trustworthiness to everyone who depends on you, and that is how conscious change in one person becomes a better common world.
**Source:** [[livestreams/Accountability, Self-Confrontation, and Conscious Change - Workbook|Accountability, Self-Confrontation, and Conscious Change]]
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“A life governed by excuses keeps receiving the same lessons, while a life governed by self-confrontation keeps graduating from them. Confront yourself before you must be confronted, convert what you find into a plan, and let the strength you gain flow outward into the people around you. Accountability begins as honesty with yourself and ends as trustworthiness to everyone who depends on you, and that is how conscious change in one person becomes a better common world.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-life-governed-excuses-better-common-world
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