Quit

Let’s assume you were all Gung Ho to start a house project, a new business, to write a book, an extreme exercise program, etc. You got up early every day, couldn’t wait to get to it. This went on for a few days, weeks, or months.

One day, your interest wasn’t there anymore. So you went on to something else. And something else, and something else. I’m guilty. There are multiple DIY projects scattered around my house in various stages of completion. I don’t consider myself a quitter. I prefer multipreneur without boundaries!

During my years publishing a small community newspaper, a dear friend hand wrote this note for me: “It takes no talent to quit”. For probably twenty years it hung on the wall behind my desk as a reminder that starting something required a commitment. And if I planned to quit because things got hard or didn’t work out how I’d planned, perhaps I shouldn’t start at all. The note seemed to wag its finger every time I wanted to quit the very thing I couldn’t wait to start.

But here’s the thing. Of course if were easy everyone would do it. You may be so close to success you can practically taste victory. People may be on your back or talking behind it, analyzing and criticizing, not understanding why you started this thing in the first place.

Sometimes to bridge the gap between beginning to end you need to fight through the hard times.

This is true whether it’s related to your work or it’s, as they say, personal. Whatever you started may (or not) have a natural course and suffer a natural death, outside your control. Beyond those, you are the driving force of your success.

To keep from becoming a serial starter of projects and finisher of none, give yourself a private pep talk. Remember what made you so jazzed in the beginning, and why you will beat yourself silly if you quit before reaching a successful outcome.

Today, give some thought to whatever it is you want to quit.

BE F-G AWESOME TODAY!

Original graphic: Stephanie DelTorchio