You already know the habit you need to change. You could list it right now, in detail, along with every reason it is hurting you. And you will probably do it again today anyway.

This is not a book about willpower, and it is not written by someone who solved this years ago and is now handing you the answer. Reasonable Excuses is written from inside the problem - by a father who spent fourteen years not writing this very book, while telling himself, every single day, a perfectly reasonable reason why today was not the day to start.

Drawing on real research - habit loops, the psychology of shame, why willpower runs out by evening - and years of honest conversations with strangers on trains, at family functions, and in waiting rooms, this book asks a different question than most self-help: not "how do I get more discipline," but "why does not knowing better ever seem to be enough?"

Inside, you will find:
- Why insight and action live in two different parts of the mind, and why one rarely reaches the other
- The real reason shame makes relapse worse, not better
- A simple 30-day framework built on small, forgivable steps instead of willpower
- Real stories - a hacked gaming account, a habit that survived two heart attacks, a family torn apart and quietly rebuilt - that show exactly how the excuse wins, and exactly how it can lose

If you have read every productivity book on the shelf and still feel stuck, this one is different. It will not motivate you. It will tell you the truth about why you are stuck, and hand you something small enough to actually do about it, starting today.