5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Quit
photo credit: Ernst Moeksis
There are many reasons you shouldn’t quit. In this post I share 5 reasons I believe you shouldn’t quit in your endeavor to create or improve your business or your life.
You are probably close to your breakthrough
It is strange the way life works. Many times when the temptation to quit is at its strongest is when you are closest to your breakthrough. It is as though your commitment to succeed is being tested right before reach your goal.
I know you have been working hard to get that next contract, that next business idea, the funding for your enterprise or any other worthy endeavor. I know it has been hard. I encourage you to step back a moment and gain perspective, approach it from a different angle, rest if you must, but don’t quit. Try again because you are almost there. Don’t quit.
Read a great poem about quitting.
You started this for a reason
This quest that you are on, you started for a reason. Take time to remember the “whys” of this endeavor. You did it for your family. You did it because you believed it would make a difference. You did it to make a better life for yourself. You did it because you wanted to live as a better version of yourself. Go back and rediscover the reason for your goal and here you will find the reason you shouldn’t quit. Don’t quit.
People are depending on what you are working on
You were put in this world to make a difference. Someone is depending on you. There is some person that deeply needs the very project that you are working on. You are not here just for yourself; you are here to solve a problem. Don’t quit because your project is very important to someone else. Don’t quit.
Even if you fail on this attempt you will have learned something important
You may be thinking of quitting because you are afraid to fail. I invite you to change your thinking about a failed attempt. If you have a failed attempt it doesn’t mean you are a failure. In fact, failure can be very good if you learn from it. Failure is meant to teach you something. Failure is only failure if you don’t try again. Don’t quit.
You don’t want to develop a habit of quitting
Don’t quit because quitting can become a negative habit. When you quit, many times it leads to a feeling of low self-esteem. This can drive you to quit other endeavors when it things get hard. You soon develop a habit of quitting which leads to a string of failures. This creates a vicious cycle and quitting and failure. Don’t quit.
What are some reasons you can think of not to quit? I look forward to your comments.
This really rang true for me
There have been so many times I just wanted to quit
Each time i would think of what my goal was, or the students that i would be neglecting, the children’s choir who needed to learn that new song, the cleaning assignment that i could only accomplish; that would get me out of the bed and back in the saddle again.
The time when quitting seems the best thing to do is after faliure. However like you said you can learn from faliure.
I would like to share two lessons that i learned from faliure.
First is i learned “How to stay in my lane”
I learned that we are all given specific time in which we will reach our destinations. If i tried to change my direction or pace i would always lose. You need patience to stay in your lane. If you do not you may cause an accident that not only involves you but others as well.
So now i sit back and allow my life to go at the pace it was designed and i find it to works out much better.
Secondly i learned about the ” Illusion of Connection”
Do you remember playing with toy trains? Just like the real ones you could connect the cars together and they would all follow the engine car. However there were times when some of the toy train cars would look like they were connected but they were not and you wouldn’t find this out until the rest of the cars took off. That car would be left behind, fall of the track,or go in the other direction.
Well i said all that to say, that there are people,(Friends, business partners, clients, church folk or family) that may come into your life that are really not connected to you like they say.
They are close enough to see what you see, but they don’t share your vision. They are close enough to hear what you say, but do not understand what you really mean. They also may be close enough to touch you, but can not feel what you are going through. See they were not really connected to you they presented you with an illusion of connection. (mind you i do understand that this is not done on purpose most of the time it is just who they are)
To deal with this there is the safety of the voice of God who will let you know who you can allow to even get close. This way you can live life, people can come, and they can go but it will not devestate me anymore.
This i will carry into my new endeavours.