57 Famous Alibis by Old Man IF
– Extract from “Think and Grow Rich” by Napolean Hill
IF I didn’t have a wife and a family …
IF I had enough “pull” …
IF I had money …
IF I had a good education …
IF I could get a job …
IF I had good health …
IF I only had time …
IF times were better …
IF other people understood me …
IF conditions around me were only different …
IF I could live my life over again …
IF I did not fear what “THEY” would say …
IF I had been given a chance …
IF I now had a chance …
IF other people didn’t “have it in for me” …
IF nothing happens to stop me …
IF I were only younger …
IF I could only do what I want …
IF I had been born rich …
IF I could meet “the right people” …
IF I had the talent that some people have …
IF I dared assert myself …
IF I only had embraced past opportunities …
IF people didn’t get on my nerves …
IF I didn’t have to keep house and look after the children …
IF I could save some money …
IF the boss only appreciated me …
IF I only had somebody to help me …
IF my family understood me …
IF I lived in a big city …
IF I could just get started …
IF I were only free …
IF I had the personality of some people …
IF I were not so fat …
IF my talents were known …
IF I could just get a “break” …
IF I could only get out of debt …
IF I hadn’t failed …
IF I only knew how …
IF everybody didn’t oppose me …
IF I didn’t have so many worries …
IF I could marry the right person …
IF people weren’t so dumb …
IF my family were not so extravagant …
IF I were sure of myself …
IF luck were not against me …
IF I had not been born under the wrong star …
IF it were not true that “what is to be will be” …
IF I did not have to work so hard …
IF I hadn’t lost my money …
IF I lived in a different neighborhood …
IF I didn’t have a “past” …
IF I only had a business of my own …
IF other people would only listen to me …
IF I had the courage to see myself as I really am, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others, for I know that there is something WRONG with me, or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.
