Hey what's up Troublemakers! I'm Rod and
I'm Vince and we're self-deprecating romantic pop
rock duo RKVC. We're band, we're
songwriters...but today we're going to
talk about the "Two or More Excuses Rule".
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Back in 2010, I was a solo artist with more than 300
consecutive tour dates. I was living out
of my car and using Panera Bread
restaurants as makeshift offices when
I needed to catch up on emails and phone calls.
One day at Panera, somewhere in the
Midwest, I was sitting down for lunch and
told myself for 30 whole minutes I'm going to
ignore phone calls and I'm going to ignore
emails and just have some "me" time.
It wasn't maybe more than 10 minutes
into that little break that my phone
rang and I thought to myself,
"This can wait: 1. I'm tired from gigging and
driving and 2. The crowd noise had kind
of picked up so maybe it wasn't the best
time for a phone call. But I picked up the
phone anyway. And that phone call led to
one of my songs being featured in the
video game Rock Band 2 and eventually
my debut album being sold in Best Buy
stores across the country...not to mention
the royalties that would pay my rent for
almost 3 whole years. And that's what started
the two or more excuses rule.
Yeah, and that principle applies to going
places and meeting people...really any
unplanned opportunity as long as it's
not harming anyone.
If you're unsure about a last-minute
opportunity and find yourself making two
or more excuses why you can't do it,
then you probably should do it.
A while back, a friend got our names on a list of an
after party in Hollywood at the very
last minute. We weren't doing anything at
that particular time and that night, so we
decided to go. When we got there the
friend wasn't outside and we couldn't
get in or get a hold of them.
We waited for almost an hour, left nearly
a dozen messages and decided to just get
dinner and go home.
The event probably wasn't that big of a
deal and would have zero impact on us anyway.
We were halfway home and had just
ordered food when our friend frantically
called us back. They apologized for
missing the messages but said that the
invitation was still open but completely
up to us. We looked at each other and
agreed it was late, we retired and we
were closer to home than the after party.
That was three excuses. As soon as we
realized that, we turned around and went
to the event anyway.
There we met a lot of the people and
connections that ended up becoming some
of our closest relationships and
creative circles in Los Angeles.
Had we let those 3 excuses convince us
to go home instead, we never would have
known what we missed.
And for what? Some Hulu and Del Taco?
There are many, many more stories and
examples we could give and many more
that have yet to happen, but you get the idea.
If you find yourself making two or
more excuses about why you can't,
you probably should.
Who knows why this is? Maybe there's a
grand universal plans that nudges you
into the right path and two or more
excuses can push you off that path.
Maybe modern human instinct is self-impairing
and rooted in fear. The truth of it all
is that it's always going to be easier
to make excuses about why you can't take
those small leaps of faith, but history
is written by those who cross those
small distances over and over again
every day, not the ones who take time to
make up excuses about why they couldn't.
Next time an unexpected opportunity
arises and you find yourself making more
than two excuses, walk through that open
door instead of wishing it away.
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