Every action has a reaction and a consequence.
All you experience in life is a result of the actions that you have taken. It is a bad habit we develop excuses to justify unfortunate situations faced in our experience and the circumstances we are in. Apologies are only going to hold you back. Accepting responsibility is always the best answer. Even if you honestly feel that things are out of your control, taking responsibility for where you are is the best mindset to adopt.
Otherwise, you are always looking to accept the mentality of the victim. We all have choices every day, and each decision we make in thought, word, or action will affect our lives. Better to be favorable than unfavorable. In a nutshell, it is essential to understand that all actions we take will affect our experience. Always without exception.
The Energy of Life
All things are energy. Energy can’t be created nor destroyed; it is only transformed. In your life, the actions you choose to take will influence the power around you. All of the decisions that we make in our thoughts become our words and our actions. The ability associated with these things is dictated by the tenor and tone of our dreams. Positive 
reviews create positive words and actions. This process leads to positive energy. The same is true for negative energy as well. Your thoughts dictate it.
There is energy all around you all the time. If you want to test this cause and effect law on point, spend time with an intensely negative person. Someone who spends their time complaining and gossiping about other people will bring an opposing force to their lives that will diffuse into yours if you spend a lot of time with them. The same is true of someone positive in thought and action; they will create positive, good energy around you that you will take with you. The moral of this cause and effect moment is to look for the positive people in life, choose to spend time with them and avoid negative people.
Leave Excuses Behind
As children, we face many situations where we are trying to avoid punishment for our actions. Not doing homework, doing something a little 
dangerous, or doing anything against our parent’s wishes could lead to trouble and punishment. We learn to manipulate with excuses from an early age. Once we find the most plausible explanation that everyone accepts, we use it again and again. It could be about our health, a mental issue, or just a lack of talent. Once you agree with an excuse, you have pushed responsibility off. So as you might have gained the momentary reward of not being punished or manipulating a situation in your favor, the effect of that is you will start to create and accept excuses in all areas of your life.
The effects of excuse-making take away your power. You will now be looking for reasons outside of yourself for everything that happens rather than looking at yourself and accepting responsibility for where you are and taking actions to get you where you want to be. The effect of taking responsibility is a personal power that will help propel you toward whatever you want to accomplish. You can take actions that will affect your life and the world, which can happen every second of every day. Leave the excuses behind and accept responsibility whenever you can in life, and be empowered with what you can accomplish.
Be a Positive Effect
In your own choices in life, be a positive force in the world. Focus on what 
you think, say, and do, in particular when it comes to how you deal with other people. Be accepting of those with different views and forgive those you have perceived to have wronged you. Give to those less fortunate than you. Be a cause that has a positive effect on the world. Be grateful for what you have and accepting of all good things entering your life. This, to me, is the best way to understand the law of cause and effect and make it a positive thing for your life and the world.
“Shallow men believe in luck or circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly: the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
“Nobody ever did, or ever will escape the consequences of his choices.” – Alfred A. Montapert.
